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- 2016
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 36 m
- 2016
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 36 m
Summary Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold shows us a Los Angeles where ethnic cooking is a kaleidoscopic portal to the mysteries of an unwieldy city and the soul of America. [IFC Films]
Directed By: Laura Gabbert
Written By: Laura Gabbert
- 2016
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 36 m
- 2016
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 36 m
City of Gold
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7.4
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Summary Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold shows us a Los Angeles where ethnic cooking is a kaleidoscopic portal to the mysteries of an unwieldy city and the soul of America. [IFC Films]
Directed By: Laura Gabbert
Written By: Laura Gabbert
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
72
91% Positive
20 Reviews
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9% Mixed
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0% Negative
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City of Gold transcends its modest methods, largely because it connects Mr. Gold’s appealing personality with a passionate argument about the civic culture of Los Angeles and the place of food within it.
As a documentary about Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic, City of Gold is more or less an entertaining valentine to an interesting guy. As cultural archaeology, unearthing the relationship between food and a city, food and a critic, a city and a critic and a swirling stew of all the above, it's fantastic.
It’s a fun watch, and familiarity with Los Angeles isn’t required to get a kick out of these toe-dips into Koreatown and Tehrangeles and all the other micro-communities that make the city a macro-paradise for eaters.
The film is most interesting when it uses Gold to tell the story of Los Angeles’s diversity, rather than the story of the most important stomach in Los Angeles.
It's a tasty primer on the man, the eater, the critic and the city.
The film is an agreeable document of cultural processing that should especially appeal to the niche crowd at its center — it's more or less mandatory viewing for L.A. foodies.
Director Laura Gabbert pairs her wide-ranging, blithely fawning approach to Gold with a vision of Los Angeles as blinkered as it is tempting.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
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75% Positive
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Release Date Mar 11, 2016
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating R
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Tagline Discover the world, one meal at a time.
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Chlotrudis Awards
• 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
