What's Cooking?
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings
- Starring: Joan Chen
- Summary:
- Director: Gurinder Chadha
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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Positive: 12 out of 22
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Mixed: 8 out of 22
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Negative: 2 out of 22
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90For so brisk and entertaining a film, sharp in its observations but light in its touch, Cooking has unexpected substance and is a formidable accomplishment in that it brings dimension to its nearly 40 principal characters.
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80What makes this movie special is the meticulous attention placed on each of its characters, employing them not in the traditional "melting pot" manner that is so common, but as part of a grand mosaic that actually seems to be worth sharing.
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60That director and co-writer Gurinder Chadha transforms this sitcom material into a lively and charming film about the melting pot at full boil probably owes something to the fact that her own multicultural bona fides are firmly in order.
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30Trades in sitcom stereotypes and crosscuts predictably from family to family as if under the misapprehension that equal time is a dramatic principle.
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 1 out of 4
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Rosie8
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LeonS2Overated and predicatble.
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