
A master chef, Kate, lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan--with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, preparing delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection.... (Full plot summary below)
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A master chef, Kate, lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan--with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, preparing delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection.
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| VarietyTodd McCarthyAgreeably prepared and attractively presented, this remake of the tasty 2001 German feature "Mostly Martha" bears too many earmarks of Hollywood packaging and emotional button-pushing, but doesn't go far wrong by closely sticking to the original's smart story construction. |
| SA Movie & DVD MagazineJames O'EhleyEven though it is a romantic comedy, there is too much miserableness going round for the film to be truly enjoyable. |
| Wall Street JournalJoanne KaufmanIt's plain old lousy timing, this chronicle of a dedicated, exacting chef being released in the wake of the kitchen-centered "Ratatouille" and "Waitress." Alongside those two charmers, which beautifully demonstrate the transformative powers of food and love, No Reservations is strictly cordon blah. |
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineThe effort is more akin to laying a thick, sugary sauce onto what demands a more organic, natural purity. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldThe cast makes the film a warm and agreeable experience. |
| Globe and MailLiam LaceyA passable romantic dish, a good-looking, old-fashioned date movie set in an idealized Greenwich Village, evocative of the better Woody Allen films. |
| Village VoiceRobert WilonskyThe cynic would like to write this off as empty grown-up hooey, "Baby Boom" without an ounce of bang. But you can't do it, because the thing's so charming and frothy and delightful and sentimental and beautifully shot and well-acted and sincere that it takes a good couple of hours before you start craving real nourishment. |
| USA TodayClaudia PuigThe romance, which commences rather gradually, is tender, but not graphic. Humor is interspersed throughout, but there also is sadness, handled seriously. Actually, it is as much a family saga as it is a romantic comedy. |
| MovieFreak.comSara Michelle FettersSo color me pleasantly surprised because Hicks' version (written by freshman scribe Carol Fuchs) is easily the director's best since his Oscar-winning 1996 opus Shine. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldBy far the best thing about it is Zeta-Jones. |