For any foodie,...The Taste of Things is a must-see film...Anyone interested in cinema itself will find it to be a feast for the senses. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 10, 2025

The Taste of Things isn’t an entirely sad film but it is bittersweet, an unflinching look at how all thing pass, even romance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 11, 2024

The Taste of Things unfolds at a slow simmer, with deliciously tender results. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 30, 2024

Trần Anh Hùng has cooked up a spectacular film that takes its time, placing the central relationship on a gentle simmer... The Taste of Things is romantic. It’s tragic. It’s simply magnifique.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 25, 2024

Binoche and Magimel believably communicate their affection for the work they do and for each other, which should leave a distinctly warm taste in audiences’ mouths.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 23, 2024

The movie absorbs us with its almost dialogue-free scenes and with the music created by the simple sound of kitchen utensils. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 15, 2024

The film is not just about the taste of food, but of love, beauty, sensuality, and human connection, offering a deeply gratifying viewing experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 10, 2024

Music would be superfluous in this symphony of touch and taste and unhurried heaven. The sound is the pulse of the process, of intense labor turned to immediate, sense-simmering result.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 4, 2024

Those who prefer dialogue or action-driven cinematic fare may find this not their Taste, but if you’re in the mood for slow-cooked (and most-assuredly not half-baked) drama with all the visually arresting trimmings, this offers a nourishing narrative.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2024

It's completely wonderful and is also that rare movie that you enter into fully. By the end, the vast stone kitchen is as familiar as home.

| Jun 11, 2024

A delectable, sumptuous waltz around the kitchen that is nostalgic yet powerfully contemporary, focussing on the timeless things in life that really matter

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 26, 2024

The kitchen is the engine room of this film. Occasionally the action may stray into the garden or the bedchamber, but almost every scene, and every relationship seems to revolve around the oven.

| May 24, 2024

“The Taste of Things” is a movie meant to make you fall in love — with the food, with the stars, with the French countryside — and it succeeds beautifully.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2024

The Taste of Things is a patient film but it’s bubbling with intensity and a great lust for the love of food and the sensuality of a lover.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 15, 2024

The Taste of Things is a sensual delight.

| May 13, 2024

This in an Epicurean epic about loving food, loving cooking and loving doing so for someone you love. There's nothing wrong with that but whether it needs to be served over eight courses is another question.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 10, 2024

The tantrums and theatricality attached to the cult of the celebrity chef are enough to kill my appetite, but I found an antidote in The Taste of Things.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2024

It is a slight affair, to be sure, but it certainly hits the mark as a foodie film.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 2, 2024

On its own terms, considering what Tran is aiming to create and what he has achieved, it is a masterful work of cinema. I believe its target audience will find it utterly entrancing.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 2, 2024

With Juliette Binoche at the stove, every dish is a star in this dreamy, 19th-century romance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2024