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Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution
Metascore
49 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
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  1. NPR
    Reviewed by: Bob Mondello
    75
    By and large, the tone is gentle, the music French, and the food shot so delectably that you can all but smell the freshly baked bread.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    70
    Takes a pragmatic, health-based approach, buttressed by frightening statistics about cancer rates among children, that's a refreshing change from the moral and high-cultural preening that sometimes enter this debate in America.
  3. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Gabriella Gershenson
    60
    Frightening statistics punctuate the film like death knells.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    60
    Will have to overcome an unfortunate title and competition from this year's other nutrition-oriented titles, though it's a natural for the crunchy crowd.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Aaron Hillis
    50
    Jean-Paul Jaud's indignant doc is equally worthless for preaching the merits of organic chow via an emotionally reactive argument instead of an investigative one.
  6. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    50
    Jaud isn't telling a story so much as he's making a case, and while his case is persuasive, it doesn't really work as a movie. The information in Food Beware could fit just as easily--and just as effectively--into a pamphlet.
  7. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    12
    If anything is frightening here, it's the scenes of the small children being indoctrinated into an organic lifestyle and being made to sing, at least three times, a song about the evils supposedly lurking in the environment around them.
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