This near-wordless film depicts industrialized agriculture in all its mundane horror. As E. coli keeps popping up on lettuce, spinach or green onions, the repercussions of how we grow food on an epic scale are self-evident.

| Aug 23, 2017

A 21st century naked lunch ... an eye-opener that can actually change the way one views the world

| Jan 23, 2009

Surprisingly engaging documentary that manages to be soothing, fascinating and disturbing in equal measure.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 25, 2008

The precisely composed result urges us to ponder the origins of the foodstuffs we wolf down each day.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 24, 2008

Brain food that's sometimes hard to stomach, Our Daily Bread should be wolfed down with all due haste.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 24, 2008

While there's a sober beauty to much of the film, it does drag on a little and you find yourself wondering what exactly is the point that Geyrhalter is trying to make.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 24, 2008

This isn't a film which tells you what to think, and it doesn't propose any alternatives to the status-quo, yet it has the gift of making you look at reality anew.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 24, 2008

Chilling but compelling stuff.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2008

this is a film which, though not always palatable, leaves us with plenty to digest about our place in the food chain.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2008

There is so much more going on than simply a morbid curiosity about meat

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 10, 2007

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| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 18, 2007

Compelling, distressing documentary about the weirdly mechanized world of industrial farms, slaughterhouses and other sources of mass-produced food has a surrealist edge that gives the film a dreamlike ambience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 23, 2007

It's as much conceptual art as dispassionate survey of the bloodless assembly line nature of the modern food industry, all process and work, automation and repetition.

| Original Score: B | Feb 22, 2007

"Our Daily Bread" is still a haunting and worthy effort that finds beauty in the ugliest of places and leaves us to dwell on the paradox, especially over our next meal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 18, 2007

Essentially, it's a Koyanisquaasti for metal and meat fetishists, and that's no bad thing.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Jan 13, 2007

An inside peek at the lethal logistics of the high-tech food industry, guaranteed to haunt you for meals to come.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 25, 2006

Difficult to sit through, Our Daily Bread is nonetheless an important record, invaluable for those with the courage to watch it.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 15, 2006

Its great political function is its seeming objectivity, a silence in the face of the hypertechnologized food industry that is itself thoroughly interrogatory and demanding.

| Dec 8, 2006

A film that is not easy to watch but one that should spark debate about the ethical treatment of animals.

| Dec 1, 2006

Our Daily Bread seems to be stunned by the alienation that the workers, settings and, indeed, the products exist in. That's not to stay that scenes of cow and pig guts being spilled out are not also effective. Yeah, I think I'll have the salad.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 29, 2006