The film doesn't quite come together.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 25, 2019

Just wait for the grainy color film of the toddler version of the movie's titular chef blithely playing on the floor with his own pots and pans in fated anticipation of his future calling. It's too adorbs for words.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2018

Flynn, who looks like a younger version of the young Christian Slater, is skinny, intense, a bit wary. If you've ever been the parent of a male adolescent - if you've ever been a male adolescent - you'll recognize him.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 23, 2018

"Chef Flynn" seems more suited for an hour-long show on the Food Network. Its 82-minute running time, although short for a feature film, seems too bloated for this story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 20, 2018

Whether hitting a curveball or creating haute cuisine, there is something fascinating about watching a precocious talent at work.

| Nov 15, 2018

"Chef Flynn" is an engaging documentary about McGarry's boy-to-man journey, which concludes as he prepares to open his own restaurant in Manhattan.

| Nov 9, 2018

For a film whose subject rightfully demands to be seen as more than just a kid, Chef Flynn does way too much coddling.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2018

At times, Cameron Yates appears to be too protective of his subjects, which somewhat neuters the drama of the narrative.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 7, 2018

Yet, even with omission, there's something intriguing about how this floppy-haired kid with a santoku didn't become the Marjoe of the kitchen.

| Mar 16, 2018

It's as an ambiguous study of parenting a prodigy that the film lingers on the palate, as McGarry's mother Meg documents and manages his evolution to an obsessive, gradually oppressive degree.

| Mar 4, 2018

The Food Network crowd will go nuts for the doc, but beyond the shots of luscious dishes, there's a pretty interesting character study here, as well.

| Jan 23, 2018