Food, Inc. Reviews
This is the kind of muckraking we should see more often.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011
This solidly constructed documentary aims to do for food production what An Inconvenient Truth did for global warming.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011
Concerned with entertainment value as well as clarity and punch, he uses lots of colourful graphics, and moves quickly from one aspect of his subject to another.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 21, 2010
Overused narration treats the audience like the cattle being abused on screen; a continuous score rams the message home, just in case we missed the point...
| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 12, 2010
Compelling, entertaining and illuminating documentary which makes you think twice, and then a few more times, about eating anything at all in U.S.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2010
Smart, gripping, and untainted by the influence of Michael Moore.
| Aug 20, 2009
A mind-boggling, heart-rending, stomach-churning expose on the food industry.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 26, 2009
If you are what you eat, we are mostly genetically modified, poorly regulated, unhealthy meat byproducts generating profits for a few gargantuan corporations.
| Original Score: B | Jun 26, 2009
In exposing the unsavory practices of agribusiness, the muckraking documentary Food, Inc. cuts to the bone.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 26, 2009
An angry blast of disgust aimed at the American food industry.
| Jun 22, 2009
A riveting if distressing look at the essentially unregulated American food supply.
Full Review | Jun 19, 2009
If you're planning on seeing Food, Inc. as a date movie, make sure you have dinner beforehand.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 19, 2009
The result is an alarming film that tackles food and freedom-of-speech issues on many fronts.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 19, 2009
This absorbing film looks terrific and does a superb job of making its case that our current food ways are drastically out of whack.
| Jun 19, 2009
An invaluable primer, Food, Inc. covers a wide array of factors and concerns without becoming excessively polemical or deadeningly earnest.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 19, 2009
The whole thing is as subtle as a watermelon in a bowl of Cheerios but necessary, nonetheless.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2009
If Wal-Mart, the Lucifer of multinational corporations in many liberal eyes, sees the fiscal sense in stocking an increasingly wide array of organic foodstuffs, consumer habits truly are changing.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2009
It's not a pretty picture. But Food, Inc. is an essential one.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 18, 2009
This review doesn't read one thing like a movie review. I just wanted to scare the bejesus out of you, which is what Food, Inc. did to me.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 18, 2009
Kenner presents an even-tempered but nonetheless horrifying dissection of the U.S. food industry.
Full Review | Jun 17, 2009