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90One of the gentlest, most charming American movies of the past decade. Its subject is less food as something to cook than food as the binding and unifying element of dinner parties, friendship, and marriage.
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88Even if you don't give a shiitake mushroom about food, there's much to savor in this lively comedy with dramatic aftertastes.
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83It hooks you up, happily, to your inner top chef.
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80Deliciously funny and warming fare, for which the amazing Meryl deserves her ridiculously overdue third Oscar.
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80Streep isn't playing Julia Child here, but something both more elusive and more truthful -- she's playing our IDEA of Julia Child.
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80A consummate entertainment that echoes the rhythms and attitudes of classic Hollywood, it's a satisfying throwback to those old-fashioned movie fantasies where impossible dreams do come true. And, in this case, it really happened. Twice.
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80Julie & Julia proceeds with such ease and charm that its audacity -- is easy to miss.
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80Julie & Julia makes deboning a duck a feminist act and cooking a great meal a creative triumph. The stakes may not be as high as the kill-or-be-killed suspense of a summer action movie, but the sauces are way tastier.
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75Meryl Streep -- at her brilliant, beguiling best -- is the spice that does the trick for the yummy Julie & Julia.
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75One can't help but wonder if Ephron would've been better off focusing exclusively on Child: She's simply more interesting screen company.
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75There's very little doubt in my mind that somewhere, culinary legend Julia Child is fuming about being consigned to a double bio-pic with a whiny, self-centered cooking blogger.
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75Few movies are as delightful as Julie & Julia.
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75Spiced with plenty of humor and affection.
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75This is blissful moviemaking. Much of the pleasure we have in watching it comes from seeing Tucci and, obviously, Streep connect.
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The film is at its best in scenes set in Europe in the 1950s – the protracted genesis of "Mastering the Art" provides the drama here.
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75In Julie and Julia, Ephron, like her heroines, has finally found what suits her: a surprising comic and romantic realism.
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75The result is a movie that, in its best moments, is delightful. It does lose a significant amount of steam halfway through -- likely due in part to its two hours of running time.
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75Streep is astonishing, conveying Child's gusto, her quavering voice, even her height.
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70As enjoyable as this foodie movie is, you wish it would take a deeper, more nuanced measure of the women who, in two different eras, star in the movie's kitchens.
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70Streep is the most important ingredient in this recipe.
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70Julie & Julia is full of holes, but you don't even care when Streep is onscreen.
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67There are many things wrong with Julie and Julia but, if you're looking to get hitched, you won't find a better booster.
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63Julie & Julia is not lacking in entertainment value, especially with the Streep performance. But if the men had been portrayed as more high-spirited, it might have taken on intriguing dimensions.
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63The movie could have used a few more scenes focusing on Child at work in the kitchen -- a few more scenes with Child doing anything, really.
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63The marriage of these two tales, however, should have ended in divorce court.
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63You know the feeling you get when you make a meal of two mildly savory appetizers that don't quite go together, and you leave you wishing you'd eaten one hefty entrée? That's Julie & Julia. Half an hour later, I wanted to watch another movie.
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60A movie that soars whenever Child is on the screen and sags when Powell shows up.
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50Beyond "Streep camp," Julie and Juila falls into the drone of current historical movies, namely, the time-travel period treatment.
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50A romantic comedy, too, but this time the romance is between two women, and one of them, truth be told, is a dud.
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It was the best of movies. It was the worst of movies. Which is to say: There's half of a great movie in Julie & Julia.
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50This middling melange of Child biopic and contempo dramedy feels overstuffed and predigested as it depicts two ladies who found fame and fulfillment in their respective eras by cooking and writing about it.
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50Strangely, though, there isn't enough for one movie, and the first clue to why lurks in the title's ampersand, a sort of linguistic duct tape holding together two stories that never really function as one.
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50One keeps waiting for the title characters' lives to intersect, but when they finally do--with a reporter asking Powell to comment on Child's disparaging remarks about her--Ephron scurries away from the moment and its implications.
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50Two movies in one. That's one more movie than it needs to be.
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JohnP.10Great parity , Both lead characters attained thier lifelong goals . Terrific creativity and good stories.
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