| Original Score: B+ | Feb 14, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Alas, this is one of those Hollywood copies that is perfectly decent in its acting and direction but hopelessly deficient in originality and any real flair.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2007

Hie me to the vomitorium, it's a fantastically smug and boring movie about food and romance, pumped with artificial sweeteners.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 31, 2007

There's not an unpredictable moment in Carol Fuchs's plodding, syrupy script; this dreadful remake of the moderately pleasing German film Mostly Martha is misconceived from start to finish.

| Aug 31, 2007

The ingredients of the German original Mostly Martha this time produce a clich Chinese dish, forgotten a mere five minutes later.

| Aug 31, 2007

Here is a romcom that has been developed on a Petri dish in some unspeakable secret department at the Porton Down biological warfare unit, designed to release a gaseous vapour into cinemas, rendering the civilian population immobile.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 31, 2007

After Nick's opera karaoke I was ready to bludgeon my own ears off with a meat tenderiser.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 31, 2007

The combined know-how of Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay couldn't salvage the unappetising concoction that is No Reservations.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2007

It's sufficiently well done to qualify as cute, quite the thing for a girlie outing with grub after, but it's utterly phoney baloney.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2007

Good, old-fashioned Hollywood gloss with smooth and winning portrayals from its three leads, and food so lusciously photographed that Zeta Jones may just be the second most beautiful sight onscreen.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 30, 2007

Sometimes movies make sense in a logical way; sometimes they make only emotional sense. No Reservations makes no damned sense at all.

| Jul 27, 2007

No Reservations is worth penciling in to your schedule, though it's more guilty diversion than memorable feast.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2007

A shamelessly microwaved American rewarming of the 2002 German romantic comedy Mostly Martha.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 27, 2007

The cast makes the film a warm and agreeable experience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2007

You don't need to have been a fan of the terrific German film Mostly Martha that inspired this remake, or even to have seen the original, to recognize that her American cousin has a tendency to overcook things.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 27, 2007

To see No Reservations is to see what's wrong with a lot of American movies. A remake Mostly Martha, it takes a winning recipe and adds some distinctly Hollywood flavors: It takes adult characters and has them behave like children.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 27, 2007

A souffl of a romantic and family comedy that stubbornly refuses to rise.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 27, 2007

The first lesson we learn in Scott Hicks' contrived romance No Reservations is that 'there's no greater sin than to overcook a quail.' The second is that a blandly seasoned comedy is nearly as unappetizing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 27, 2007