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Chef (15)

Comedy

A chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.

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The critical consensus

Favreau is sometimes too heavy on the schmaltz. But, largely, Chef will leave you hungry for more.

****(*)James Mottram, The List, 04/06/2014

Favreau’s mid-life-crisis culinary comedy could do with less ham and cheese and beefier action. But it’s a flavoursome slab of comic comfort-food that works up a viewer appetite.

***(*)(*)Kate Stables, Total Film, 23/06/2014

Eat well beforehand or you’ll be in tummy-rumbling, tongue-hanging-out agony as the merry band cook their way across America. Good fun and happy, filling fare.

***(*)(*)Angie Errigo, Empire Online, 23/06/2014

Favreau's picture doesn’t represent the filmmaking rehabilitation its meta plot alludes to, but it’s a step in the right direction.

***(*)(*)Jamie Dunn, The Skinny, 23/06/2014

Chef is all about droolsome cuisine – but it also contains more than your recommended daily allowance of sugar and cheese.

***(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 22/06/2014

A sassy and mouth-watering concoction, bursting with flavour.

Chris Blohm, Little White Lies, 26/06/2014

The result is a small, unashamedly feel-good film that makes up for what it lacks in dramatic jeopardy with gentle comedy, heartwarming family scenes, ladles of food porn, and time spent among characters you like. It's not great art, but it is made with care and skill and integrity.

****(*)Laurence Phelan, The Independent, 26/06/2014

There's nourishment to be had, if you lower your expectations.

***(*)(*)Catherine Shoard, The Guardian, 26/06/2014

It's all enjoyable, wholesome fare but just a little bit bland – a few added kitchen nightmares might have made for a more intense and memorable flavour.

****(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 26/06/2014

Chef is good-natured, big-hearted and hard to dislike.

Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 27/06/2014

It doesn’t shout or swear for your attention (unlike most contemporary comedies) but trundles along amiably and amusingly with its heart very much in the right place.

****(*)Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 27/06/2014

The result is a small, unashamedly feel-good film that makes up for what it lacks in dramatic jeopardy with gentle comedy, heartwarming family scenes, ladles of food porn, and time spent among characters you like. It's not great art, but it is made with care and skill and integrity.

Laurence Phelan, The Independent, 28/06/2014

For all its reheated film-food cliches (cooking as a metaphor for bonding – sexual, fraternal, familial) and refried road-movie beans, Chef slips a few tasty side dishes around its meat-and-potatoes main course.

***(*)(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 29/06/2014

The end result is undemanding, but not unsatisfying.

***(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 29/06/2014


Features about Chef (15)

Chef: A feast for the eyes, an eye for a feast

Lisa Markwell, The Independent, 15/06/2014

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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