Gameau ... inserts a bit of journalism into the mix with two road trips that elevate "That Sugar Film" beyond a semi-vanity production.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 31, 2015

While "That Sugar Film" is filled with powerful and what should be downright alarming information, it also suffers from distracting bouts of cinematic candy coating.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 31, 2015

The food-doc shelf is crowded with good-for-you movies, including "Fed Up," "Fast Food Nation," "Food Inc." and, yes, "Super Size Me." "That Sugar Film" is a worthy addition, entertaining while informing.

| Jul 30, 2015

Gameau, like a certain beloved British nanny, recognizes the value in a spoonful of you-know-what helping the medicine go down.

| Jul 30, 2015

Peppy and eager to please, this relentless Australian documentary takes a strange approach to early death and unnatural appetites.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 30, 2015

Fun to watch, if a little too cutesy for my tastes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 30, 2015

Although Gameau's film includes a fair amount of science, he and his helpers sweeten the film's statistics, delivering them in clever, accessible ways.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 30, 2015

Gameau builds his case well, and by the end of the painfully dorky musical number, you may be swapping your smoothies for berries and plain, full-fat yogurt.

| Jul 28, 2015

One senses that all of these kinds of documentaires are finally aggrandizing shrines made by artists trying to erect something out of nothing.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 26, 2015

With its peppy, pop style, complete with silly, colorful special effects and animation, this documentary should prove accessible to school-age viewers, who might profit the most from its frank information about sugar's effect on their minds and bodies.

| Jul 13, 2015

There's really nothing fresh in terms of news or science about sugar's potential for addiction, obesity and disease.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 9, 2015

Gimmicky but making a valid and useful point.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2015

Sugar makes you fat. That, predictably, is what the young Australian film-maker Damon Gameau discovers for himself from his own expanding midriff in this engaging, Super Size Me-style doc.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2015

That Sugar Film is Super Size Me for nitwits.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 25, 2015

Spirited but unconvincing stunt documentary about the perils of a high sugar diet.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2015

There's ... something annoyingly glib and oversimplified about the argument, and Garneau with his Smeg fridge and smug affect grows more irksome over the course.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2015

A film that doesn't quite blow the lid off the sugar bowl, but ought to keep pop-science fans sweet.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2015

Simply put, Gameau's one-man experiment is not rigorous enough to prove anything at all, however striking his results seem.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 12, 2015

My main problem with this documentary, which Gameau says is a quest for definitive answers, is that it is so one-sided.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2015