Food, Inc.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Food, Inc. is hard to shake, because days after you've seen it, you may find yourself eating something -- a cookie, a piece of poultry, cereal out of the box, a perfectly round waxen tomato -- and you'll realize that you have virtually no idea what it actually is.

Los Angeles Times Gary Goldstein

Essential viewing.

San Francisco Chronicle Amy Binacolli

A mind-boggling, heart-rending, stomach-churning expose on the food industry.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

It's not a pretty picture. But Food, Inc. is an essential one.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

A scary movie that's also funny, touching and good for you.

Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen

Smart, gripping, and untainted by the influence of Michael Moore, this muckraking 2008 documentary transcends anticorporate demonology to build a visceral but reasoned case against modern agribusiness.

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

An engaging and often wrenching film, Food, Inc. covers a wide range of material, including the horrific, the humorous and the exemplary.

Village Voice Robert Sietsema

Expertly crafted documentary.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Eating can be one dangerous business. Don't take another bite till you see Robert Kenner's Food, Inc., an essential, indelible documentary that is scarier than anything in the last five Saw horror shows.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

I figured it wasn't important for me to go into detail about the photography and the editing. I just wanted to scare the bejesus out of you, which is what Food, Inc. did to me.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Like many social issue documentaries, Food, Inc. is better at addressing problems than offering solutions: its endorsement of organic food in particular feels a little flimsy. Nevertheless, it’s entertaining and fast-moving enough to make audiences intermittently forget they’re consuming cinematic health food.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Though slickly packaged, Robert Kenner's unsparing exposé is harder to watch than any horror film.

The New Yorker David Denby

For many of this movie's likely viewers, the sting built into Food, Inc. is the realization that, without unending effort, they are not all that much freer in their choices than that hard-pressed family.

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

See Food, Inc. after dinner, but see it.

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

Why wait for 2012? If you're hankering for a taste of the apocalypse, the opening sequence of this eye-opening, stomach-queasing doc has plenty to go on – witness menacing superimpositions on a bleak, blighted landscape – and the hits just keep on coming.

New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott

As a result, the slickly produced Food, Inc. is more deeply unsettling than it is out-and-out stomach-turning.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

In many areas, Food Inc. could be accused of being a fast-food version of a documentary – it's everywhere at once, skipping across the surface of a vast subject, and adding nuggets of sweetness to the scary filler.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

Kenner mounts it all with a pleasingly fluent and varied style, which makes it more or less easy to absorb his arguments, even if they're familiar from other books and movies and are presented with unopposed certainty.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Food, Inc. argues that part of the reason why the food industry is so difficult to regulate is that many of the government officials currently assigned to watchdog roles were once employed by the companies they now keep tabs on.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

The whole thing is as subtle as a watermelon in a bowl of Cheerios but necessary, nonetheless.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

If Wal-Mart, the Lucifer of multinational corporations in many liberal eyes, sees the fiscal sense in stocking an increasingly wide array of organic foodstuffs, consumer habits truly are changing. Not fast enough, though, for documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner.

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

Time and again the movie stops short before it really gets started, as with the debates over the big business of organic food.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

No question, watching this film is a tough go. Horror films cause less seat-squirming.

New York Magazine David Edelstein

The sheer scale of the movie is mind-blowing--it touches on every aspect of modern life. It's the documentary equivalent of "The Matrix": It shows us how we're living in a simulacrum, fed by machines run by larger machines with names like Monsanto, Perdue, Tyson, and the handful of other corporations that make everything.

Variety John Anderson

A civilized horror movie for the socially conscious, the nutritionally curious and the hungry.

Film Threat Matthew Sorrento

And to all you sane folk out there, be prepared when seeing this film: you'll ponder the old adage about being what you eat. For those new to the truth about food, this is a great starting point.

New York Post Kyle Smith

The movie offers very little that food radicals don't already know.