Our Daily Bread
  • Release Date: Nov 24, 2006
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86 out of 100

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8.3 out of 10

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  • Summary: This documentary aims to show the industrial production of food as a reflection of our society's values: plenty of everything, made as quickly and as efficiently as modern technology permits. (First Run/Icarus)

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  1. Positive: 10 out of 10
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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    100
    Nikolaus Geyrhalter's superb documentary is an unblinking, often disturbing look at industrial food production from field to factory.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    100
    Despite this lack of narration, Our Daily Bread never fails to enthrall because of the impeccable eye -- for composition, for color, for movement within the frame -- of filmmaker Geyrhalter.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    91
    What the activist drama "Fast Food Nation" does with talk and the aid of movie stars, Our Daily Bread, a riveting documentary by Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter, does even better, with no voice-over and barely a word spoken by the unidentified workers involved in matter-of-fact killing and harvesting.
  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    80
    An eye-opener that handles its themes in a refreshingly nonexploitative manner.

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
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  1. joomjim4
    10
    The film espies the whole process of food production before it's served in front of our table. It's a genuine film, probably too genuine that I am now decided not to eat meat anymore.… Expand
  2. PoppyR.
    9
    A stark and meditative look at the industry of European food production. The pace of the film imitates the mechanistic, sterile, cold process the harvest has become in today's alienated world. The viewer is allowed ample opportunity to ponder the question: when living under a system that makes every head of lettuce, cow, or factory worker a mere example of their category of being, are there significant differences between these lives? When a life is predetermined in its totalized relationship to the whole of the system is the only remaining choice whether or not to take pleasure in the hypnotic rhythm of the well-oiled machinery? More documentaries should so simply inspire critical reflection on the status of modern living as this one does.… Expand

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