What makes this film memorable and pleasurable, above all, is the ebullient performance of Meryl Streep as Julia Child, unlikely culinary trailblazer and TV star.
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10/08/09
Julie & Julia (2009)
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Reviews Counted:191
Fresh:143
Rotten:48
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Boosted by Meryl Streep's charismatic performance as Julia Child, Julie and Julia is a light, but fairly entertaining culinary comedy.
Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $93,723,567
Synopsis: Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with... [More]
Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina
Director: Nora Ephron
Reviews for Julie & Julia
Top CriticAs food movies go -- and they've become a genre of their own -- this one may be a little too rich but it's full of delights.
10/08/09
Top CriticAnother patchy effort from director Nora Ephron who doesn’t quite get a grip on this potentially fascinating story.
10/08/09
Top CriticNora Ephron serves up a hearty silver-service banquet with a story that links the lives of two exceptional American women.
10/05/09
Top CriticIt's a delicious, irresistible film whose primary exuberance and pull is created by the combined forces of Meryl Streep and Amy Adams %u2013 their second pairing after Doubt, in which they also hit the acting jackpot
10/02/09
Top CriticWho cannot relate to Julia enrolling in the all-male Cordon Bleu Cooking School, crying buckets as she practises chopping mountains of onions?
10/02/09
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10/26/09
Ebullient, witty, and wonderfully warm-hearted Julie & Julia is a celebration of how to live life to the full.
10/08/09
Top CriticLike a beautiful home cooked meal, Julie & Julia is not perfect by industry standards, just warm, comforting and very, very enjoyable.
10/08/09
Top CriticWith great panache, it celebrates butter, bravery, and believing in oneself, all excellent things, brilliantly executed
10/04/09
There are few more civilised, civilising and generally delightful movies around at the moment than Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia.
09/18/09
An adorable and entertaining film that is appealing to the appetite.
09/11/09
Julie & Julia is a very American kind of money-spinner. Crucially, though, it is never dumb.
09/11/09
Deliciously funny and warming fare, for which the amazing Meryl deserves her ridiculously overdue third Oscar.
09/11/09
Top CriticA film that’s charming, funny – especially when Streep is on screen, broadcasting her superb impression of the tall, charismatic, high-pitched Child – but leaves you with a dissatisfaction with modern life that no culinary masterpiece can relieve.
09/11/09
Meryl Streep at her most relaxed and enjoyable is a main course in herself. Pity we have to share her with a side order of Nora Ephron at her least appetizing.
09/11/09
Julie & Julia is a highly polished piece of upmarket entertainment, brimming with beautiful interiors. If you throw in the lavish helpings of food porn it’s almost like a colour supplement come to life.
09/11/09
Top CriticA dose of stodgy comfort food in the form of a complacent, mediocre film, with an exasperatingly flaccid and anti-climactic ending.
09/11/09
Top CriticIt’s refreshing to see male performers being towered over by female leads. It’s even more refreshing to watch a film that exults in the pleasures of uxoriousness.
09/11/09
Julie & Julia seems satisfied to fall short of its potential – whether as an insightful romantic comedy or an exploration of food lust – relying on Streep to carry the film with her witty turn as Child.
09/11/09
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