Review of Julie & Julia (2009) by Liliana C — 17 Jan 2011

Meryl Streep's performance is a joy to behold, but that's about the only truly positive quality of this film. The film just sputters along, flopping back and forth between two supposedly parallel stories, trying very hard to mean something.

But it's just unable to do that. The end result is a feigned, sappy mess, the clear result of Nora Ephron applying her distinct film-making style to a story she should never have touched. At its core, the film is about an implied change in Amy Adams' character, a change that the film fails to tangibly deliver by the film's end.