Our Daily Bread
  • Release Date: Nov 24, 2006
User Score
8.3 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12

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  1. joomjim4
    Jun 18, 2012
    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.
  2. PoppyR.
    Nov 25, 2006
    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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Metascore
86 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    80
    An eye-opener that handles its themes in a refreshingly nonexploitative manner.
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  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Leslie Felperin
    80
    Looks at the agricultural industry across Europe through sound and images alone. Pic offers a tabula rasa in which some auds will see a horrifying indictment of the industry's cruelties, others a realistic depiction of mechanized farming, and some a soft-spoken tribute to manual labor. Meanwhile, precisely composed lensing and painstaking sound design create moments of sublime beauty.
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  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    67
    The non-sensationalized "this is what really happens" approach makes Our Daily Bread extra-creepy at times.
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