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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 21 May 2014

It's a refreshing change of pace from typical summer fare, a story not framed around the skeleton of an old TV series or designed as a tie-in…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 21 May 2014

If Chef were a musical, you'd walk out humming the food - and you might end up doing that anyway…

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By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 21 May 2014

Few movies are better suited for a dine-in theater…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 21 May 2014

Chef is filled to the brim with the kind of heart and vivacity that makes up for the film’s familiar storyline…

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By Matthew Odam (59) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 21 May 2014

A slight but sweet film (part passion/part vanity project) that feels like it was tossed together in short order…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 May 2014

Chef is so thin and bland it doesn't even inspire contempt…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 21 May 2014

Favreau returns to his Swingers-style indie film roots for an emotionally nourishing and music-filled labor of love about food, family and…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 21 May 2014

Best of all is Favreau. Instead of mass-producing another superhero epic, he has given the overfed public a dish of right-sized comfort food…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 21 May 2014

The shapeless story takes way too long to get to Carl's big moment of change, and the tension in both his professional and personal lives feels…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 20 May 2014

Here's a film that feeds the heart and the soul…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 20 May 2014

A succulent, sweetly simmering amusement…

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By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 20 May 2014

On one level, harmless food porn. On another, a rant about an artist (Jon Favreau) who gets slammed by the Internet…

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By Jeff Baker (191) for Oregonian (1,550) on 20 May 2014

Favreau's a big man who knows how to wield a chef's knife and shoots the food truck scenes with a hectic good nature that's infectious…

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By David Stratton (799) for The Australian (781) on 18 May 2014

The film's main theme, the restoration of the father-son relationship, while not very original, is sympathetically handled and young Anthony…

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By James Verniere (1,180) for Boston Herald (1,433) on 15 May 2014

An art house/mainstream hybrid. Wonderful cast. The kid is great…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for About.com (1,470) on 15 May 2014

If, as it's said, the true test of quality for any movie about food is how hungry watching it ultimately makes you, well, Chef is a very good…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 15 May 2014

This mouth-watering, savory film is the most satisfying effort by Favreau since he made the leap to blockbusters…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 15 May 2014

Chef tells a very familiar story, but it does so with wit, an attention to its characters, and plenty of compassion…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Beliefnet (937) on 15 May 2014

The food is so lusciously photographed you can almost smell it. And the music perfectly matches the food, sensual and spicy…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 15 May 2014

Jon Favreau's bouncy paean to the culinary arts wins you over in a stridently upbeat, crowd-pleasing way…

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