Julia

audience Reviews

, 90% Audience Score
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Thank you PBS for Sesame Street, tennis, and the French Chef. Julia shows the machinations behind the scenes and where PBS (allegedly) started to go wrong, so wrong.
  • Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    Overall, the documentary of Julia Child is a beautiful experience.  While I'm not a lover of cooking personally, it still got to me. Julia was a loveable and amazing human being.  It wasn't just about her food, but also about how she was an inspiration as a writer and someone who influenced many people worldwide (especially women).  Julia is also a love story, highly educational and filled with heartfelt moments and laughter.  I adored this feature and only had a few minor issues relating to the third act, which is vague on key details and rushes towards its touching finale.
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    Julia (2021): Documentary of Julia Child. Like a Wikipedia article on film, it covers her whole life but barely captures the intellectual rigor that made her cook book a best seller and the joie de vivre that made her a star TV chef. Still, a good place to start. B-
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    I would’ve gave it 5 stars, but I felt it was unnecessary to bring up their political views. The movie could’ve done just fine without it.
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    A fine documentation story-telling Julia's life with an appropriately-heavy emphasis on her TV life, her devoted marriage, and love for French cooking using cuts from her shows and interviews with people who knew and worked with her. By her own words, Julia comes across as a solid feminist who believed both in women as homemakers as well as women with careers, and made advances in spite of a male-dominated industry. Know that this is a CNN production, and as such, prepare yourself for an overly-heavy peppering of political discourse: the reveling in Julia's emancipation from her conservative family, caricaturization of her Republican Conservative parents as ignorant, angry and anti-culture, and propping up as an flag-carrier of nouveau liberal ideals. Outside of these unessential parentheticals, Julia is an entertaining and uplifting biography,
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    Hubby and Wife date documentary night brings us 'Julia' a wonderful documentary from the makers of 'RBG'. It does a really sound job of chronicling the life of The French Chef Julia Child from a mostly positive approach. The chef inspired not only many people to cook, but also the 30 minute cooking show. There isn't a ton of interviews with the cooking icon, but it's supplemented by people who knew her interviews. If you're a fan of the subject of cooking, Child, or Docs this is a fast-paced film with a tasty finish! Hubby: 8.2/Wife 8.2 (1st time ever)
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    Not sure why this has gotten such good reviews. Her life just isn't very interesting. She liked to cook French Food. Wrote a best selling cookbook about it. (Later wrote more.) Had a good marriage. Got a long-running TV show. (My mom used to watch her show but never cooked a thing that Julia prepared.) Overcame cancer. But it's all kinda slow and not in any way provcative, mind-changing, illuminating. Was only a couple notches above watching paint dry, for me. Have no idea why it is intriguing to many.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Great documentary of Julias life and influence on American cooking. Her show on PBS was the beginning of the cooking shows we now see.
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    We enjoyed the documentary/bio of Julia Child very much.I had no idea what an affect she had on getting people interested in cooking and getting them to eat well.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Refreshing, joyful, interesting, informative