A bit melodramatic at times, but still charming.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

This valentine to the cultural diversity that defines L.A. is a second-tier Altman (or even Paul Thomas Anderson)a broad, accessible comedy that contrasts four large and dynamic families residing on the same street: Latino, black, Jewish, and Asian.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Dec 20, 2006

A combination of fresh ingredients mixed together with skill to create a well-balanced harmony of diverse flavours. Delicious.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2001

The film collapses under the weight of stereotypes and a hackneyed concept.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Trades in sitcom stereotypes and crosscuts predictably from family to family as if under the misapprehension that equal time is a dramatic principle.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The film's gluttonous overkill of food is matched only by its overacting.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It wears both its heart and its politics too obviously on its sleeve for comfort.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Like too many Thanksgiving dinners, too much squabbling really wreaks havoc on the digestion. Football, anyone?

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The writers observe each family with a knowing eye and a miraculously even hand that lends the jokes the ring of truth.

| Jan 1, 2000

Because the stories are so skillfully threaded together, the movie doesn't feel like an exercise: Each of the stories stands on its own.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Chadha handles the multiple story lines and large cast with an expert hand, cutting back and forth to underscore the similarities and the differences.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

For a canvas this broad, the portraiture is exceptionally fine.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Like the meal itself, the movie's both filling and familiar.

| Original Score: B | Jan 1, 2000

It's a meal you may feel you've eaten before, but you nonetheless walk away stuffed and happy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The louder and more melodramatic the arguments get, the more overwrought the acting becomes.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Chadha tries to keep so many balls in the air at once, she can't generate any steam in the individual stories.

| Jan 1, 2000

This film is lighthearted and smart enough to be one of the best Altmanesque ensemble comedies of the last couple of years.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The brouhahas are more undercooked than the birds.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A glorified 온라인카지노추천 movie.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000