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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Portland OregonianShawn LevyPortland OregonianShawn LevyA feel-good movie that doesn't think it needs to rub people's noses in the happy stuff to get its points across or eliminate all the disturbing shades to make a uniformly glowing whole.
- 80Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanSweet without being saccharine and funny without being forced, the closely observed romantic comedy treats the culinary arts as a metaphor for personal healing.
- 80TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissNettelbeck is a sharp observer of life's surprises, and Gedeck has an appraising, intelligent beauty. Her Martha is like the film: tart on the outside, sweet on the inside, with a delectable aftertaste.
- 80SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinThe German reserve and Italian extroversion are in just the right balance. The movie exists on a tantalizing border -- and I don't mean Switzerland.
- 78Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovThere's more at work in this gorgeous and affecting picture than simple culinary sex appeal.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyIt is, in short, a compendium of clichés, yet with a presentation that makes the familiar seem remarkably warm and fresh.
- 70Washington PostAnn HornadayWashington PostAnn HornadayA sweet, even delectable diversion from the more explosive cinematic fare of the season.
- 63New York PostMegan LehmannNew York PostMegan LehmannThe plot is thin as consomme, and the thudding score is distracting, but the heartfelt storytelling and Michael Bertl's disarming cinematography make this a food film to savor.
- 60The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsBecomes precisely the sort of film its elements demand. As tearful goodbyes and joyful montage sequences set to lite-jazz saxophoning take over, "neatly winsome" trumps "messy drama" yet again.
- 40Los Angeles TimesManohla DargisLos Angeles TimesManohla DargisIt's a drag how Nettelbeck sees working women -- or at least this working woman -- for whom she shows little understanding; there's a puritan, even punitive, cast to the way she sees her character, whose pathology she digs at with the tenacity of a truffle hound.