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

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

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

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

The camera simply looks, with unflinching interest, as plants and animals are processed (in European industrial settings) into the food we eat. It's up to the viewer to distinguish tastes of horror, compassion, and awe at the efficiency involved.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 29, 2006

On a shot-by-shot basis, much of Our Daily Bread is stunning.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Nov 27, 2006

An alarming vision of the antiseptic order we have created around the business of stocking our fridge.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2006

A thought-provoking documentary that would go well on a double bill with Richard Linklater's fictional Fast Food Nation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2006

This documentary is an unblinking, often disturbing look at industrial food production from field to factory.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 23, 2006

Pic offers a tabula rasa in which some auds will see a horrifying indictment of the industry's cruelties, others a realistic depiction of mechanized farming, and some a soft-spoken tribute to manual labor.

Full Review | Nov 23, 2006

Our Daily Bread is quietly radical in showing creatures whose existence is solely and inexorably a preparation for death.

Full Review | Nov 14, 2006

Nikolaus Geyrhalter's beautifully shot and elegantly edited documentary belies the frequent ugliness of its subject matter.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2006

The Benny's Video of documentary films, Our Daily Bread's only point is to have none.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 13, 2006