Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "food-critic"

1. The Menu (2022)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

Director: Mark Mylod | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau

Votes: 394,212 | Gross: $38.50M

2. Ratatouille (2007)

G | 111 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous Paris restaurant.

Directors: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava | Stars: Brad Garrett, Lou Romano, Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm

Votes: 827,080 | Gross: $206.45M

3. Chef (2014)

R | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A head chef quits his restaurant job and buys a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.

Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Hoffman

Votes: 232,143 | Gross: $31.42M

4. Boiling Point (I) (2021)

R | 92 min | Drama, Thriller

Enter the relentless pressure of a restaurant kitchen as a head chef wrangles his team on the busiest day of the year.

Director: Philip Barantini | Stars: Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson, Alice Feetham, Ray Panthaki

Votes: 42,479

5. Burnt (I) (2015)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama

Adam Jones is a chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.

Director: John Wells | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl, Riccardo Scamarcio

Votes: 133,086 | Gross: $13.65M

6. Paddington 2 (2017)

PG | 103 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.

Director: Paul King | Stars: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins

Votes: 94,249 | Gross: $40.44M

7. Nada (2023– )

13+ | 144 min | Comedy, Drama

An iconic bon vivant, who barely has enough resources to maintain his affluent lifestyle, hires a young woman from Paraguay to replace the recently deceased maid who took care of him for more than 40 years.

Stars: Luis Brandoni, Robert De Niro, Majo Cabrera, Silvia Kutika

Votes: 3,975

8. Perfect Sense (2011)

R | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions.

Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Lauren Tempany, Connie Nielsen

Votes: 64,010 | Gross: $0.00M

9. Spanglish (2004)

PG-13 | 131 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family whose patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.

Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman

Votes: 88,613 | Gross: $42.73M

10. The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

PG | 122 min | Comedy, Drama

The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.

Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon

Votes: 87,687 | Gross: $54.24M

11. Summer Villa (2016 TV Movie)

TV-G | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

A celebrity chef who is getting over a bad review and a romance novelist who can't seem to get her next book started meet accidentally at a French villa.

Director: Pat Kiely | Stars: Hilarie Burton Morgan, Victor Webster, Emorphia Margaritis, Joseph Bellerose

Votes: 2,749

12. Addicted to Love (1997)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

Maggie's and Sam's former partners are in love; she wants revenge and he wants his lost love back, so they work together to break up the happy couple.

Director: Griffin Dunne | Stars: Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick, Kelly Preston, Tchéky Karyo

Votes: 25,753 | Gross: $34.66M

13. Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)

PG | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

One by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. Each chef murdered in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Votes: 2,627

14. Love's Kitchen (2011)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Rob Haley (Dougray Scott), an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef ... See full summary »

Director: James Hacking | Stars: Dougray Scott, Sarah Sharman, Katrine De Candole, Lee Boardman

Votes: 3,792

15. In My Dreams (2014 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 94 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Natalie and Nick are frustrated with their luck in romance. After tossing coins into a fountain, the two then begin dreaming about each other. But, according to fountain mythology, they only have a week to turn those dreams into reality.

Director: Kenny Leon | Stars: Katharine McPhee, Mike Vogel, JoBeth Williams, Joe Massingill

Votes: 5,919

16. Dinner with Friends (2001 TV Movie)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two married couples have their twelve-year bond of friendship put to the test when one couple reveals that they are splitting up.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Andie MacDowell, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette

Votes: 3,342

17. The Perfect Pairing (2022 TV Movie)

TV-G | 82 min | Family, Romance

A food and wine critic who hits her head and loses her memory while accidentally visiting a winery she panned in the past, owned and operated by single dad Michael.

Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Nazneen Contractor, Brennan Elliott, Zarina Rocha, Genelle Williams

Votes: 1,065

18. A Dash of Love (2017 TV Movie)

TV-G | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

When an aspiring chef lands a dream job at her idol's restaurant, she befriends the handsome executive chef. After they are both wrongly fired from there, the duo decides to open their own eatery to prove their food is better.

Director: Christie Will Wolf | Stars: Jen Lilley, Brendan Penny, Peri Gilpin, Kandyse McClure

Votes: 2,567

19. Love by Chance (2016 TV Movie)

TV-G | 83 min | Comedy, Romance

Claire's mother is Claire's secret matchmaker.

Director: Gary Harvey | Stars: Beau Garrett, Benjamin Ayres, Garwin Sanford, John Cassini

Votes: 2,549

20. Love, Lights, Hanukkah! (2020 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Romance

As Christina prepares her restaurant for its busiest time of year, she gets her DNA test revealing that she's Jewish. The discovery leads her to a new family and an unlikely romance over eight nights.

Director: Mark Jean | Stars: Mia Kirshner, Ben Savage, Marilu Henner, Advah Soudack

Votes: 1,155

21. Christmas on the Menu (2020 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Celebrated chef Josie heads home for the holidays and creates a special festive menu for her mom's new bed-and-breakfast bistro, where she runs into Tanner, the famous food critic who ... See full summary »

Director: Jake Helgren | Stars: Kim Shaw, Clayton James, Cynthia Gibb, Katrina Norman

Votes: 717

22. Hint of Love (2020 TV Movie)

TV-G | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

A culinary expert is tasked with elevating the brand of a food channel personality. As their personalities clash, they start to realize that contrast can be as good in love as it is in food.

Director: Kevin Fair | Stars: Debs Howard, Dennis Andres, Matthew James Dowden, Aadila Dosani

Votes: 742

23. Love on the Menu (2019 TV Movie)

TV-G | 90 min | Romance

A chef makes a deal with a frozen food executive in order to save his restaurant.

Director: Ellie Kanner | Stars: Autumn Reeser, Kavan Smith, Jordyn Ashley Olson, Richard Ian Cox

Votes: 1,520

24. Bitter Feast (2010)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

A celebrity chef exacts revenge on a food blogger who torpedoes his career.

Director: Joe Maggio | Stars: James Le Gros, Joshua Leonard, Amy Seimetz, Larry Fessenden

Votes: 1,656

25. City of Gold (I) (2015)

R | 96 min | Documentary, Biography

A documentary portrait that takes us into Jonathan Gold's universe to tell the improbable story of a revolution inspired by the pen, but driven by the palate.

Director: Laura Gabbert | Stars: David Chang, Roy Choi, Jonathan Gold, Ludo Lefebvre

Votes: 1,076 | Gross: $0.61M

26. Diagnosis Delicious (2016 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 87 min | Romance

Chef Dave Oberlin's (Ryan Rottman) career is in shambles when his altercation with a famous food critic goes viral. After being blacklisted by the elite restaurants, Dave is forced to take ... See full summary »

Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Maya Stojan, Ryan Rottman, Jessica Tuck, Brian Baumgartner

Votes: 729

27. Recipe for Disaster (2003 TV Movie)

G | 88 min | Comedy, Family

Rebecca Korda and her two brothers, Sam and Max, are left alone on opening night of their family-owned restaurant.

Director: Harvey Frost | Stars: John Larroquette, Lesley Ann Warren, Melissa Peterman, Margo Harshman

Votes: 385

28. Chasing Taste (2013)

89 min | Comedy

A romantic comedy about food, love, and lies under an NYC Skyline.

Director: Sean Gannet | Stars: Kirk McGee, Uma Incrocci, Maitely Weismann, Ryan McDonough

Votes: 31

29. Love and Lemons (2013)

99 min | Comedy, Romance

This is a romantic comedy about love, friendship and the courage it takes to follow your dreams. It's based on the novel with the same title by Kajsa Ingemarsson. And it's centers around ... See full summary »

Director: Teresa Fabik | Stars: Rakel Wärmländer, Dan Ekborg, Josephine Bornebusch, Sverrir Gudnason

Votes: 2,074

30. The Food Guide to Love (2013)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Romance

A very cute movie about a "want to stay single" very successful food critic that believes he finally finds the one he was looking for. As time of happiness moves on there are various real ... See full summary »

Directors: Dominic Harari, Teresa Pelegri | Stars: Richard Coyle, Leonor Watling, Ciara Bailey, Michelle Beamish

Votes: 1,087

31. Christmas in the Clouds (2001)

PG | 96 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

During the holidays at a ski resort in Utah run by a Native American tribe, the overworked manager and a widowed woman from the big city overcome mistaken identities and intrusive guests in their pursuit of romance.

Director: Kate Montgomery | Stars: Timothy Vahle, Sam Vlahos, Mariana Tosca, M. Emmet Walsh

Votes: 890

32. '68 (1988)

R | 99 min | Drama

'68 covers exactly one year (January 1st through December 31st) in the lives of Zoltan Szabo and his family, Hungarian immigrants, working hard to make a life in San Francisco in 1968. The ... See full summary »

Director: Steven Kovacs | Stars: Eric Larson, Robert Locke, Neil Young, Sándor Técsy

Votes: 95

33. Love in Tokyo (2015)

Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

A social-media obsessed American guy falls in love with an unplugged Japanese girl in Tokyo.

Director: Michael Solton | Stars: Jonathan Sherr, Itsuka, Jason London, Michael Solton

Votes: 51

34. Recipe for a Perfect Christmas (2005 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 120 min | Comedy

A newly appointed food critic finds her life turned upside down when her uninhibited mother arrives unannounced at Christmas. Desperate to offload her, she enlists the help of a young chef, with surprising results.

Director: Sheldon Larry | Stars: Christine Baranski, Carly Pope, Bobby Cannavale, Monica Parker

Votes: 932

35. Million to One (2023)

TV-PG | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Dre Shaw reluctantly puts his life as a social media rising star on hold to return home for a family wedding, only to go from family liability to savior.

Director: Harold Jackson III | Stars: Michael J. Patterson, Ashley Rios, Derek A. Smith, Rob Gordon

Votes: 59

36. Toni Costa - Kommissar auf Ibiza - Küchenkunst (2012 TV Movie)

88 min | Crime, Drama

Ibiza police commissioner Toni Costa cancels his holiday, a rare chance to be with his daughter, to investigate the stabbing murder of the sous-chef in José Arrabal's reputed restaurant. ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Sämann | Stars: Kai Albrecht, Bruno F. Apitz, Gregor Bloéb, Sebastian Goder

Votes: 33

37. De kik azok a Lumnitzer növérek? (2006)

93 min | Comedy

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Director: Péter Bacsó | Stars: Barbara Hegyi, Róbert Alföldi, Péter Rudolf, Dorottya Udvaros

Votes: 310

38. Order Up! (2008 Video Game)

E | Action, Comedy

Become the best chef of the whole island of Port'Abello.

Stars: Chris Phillips, Becca Lish, Erik Bergmann, Steve Mellor

Votes: 21

39. Einai o Theos mageiras? (2004)

96 min | Comedy

Thodorakis, the film's hero, has a happy go-lucky attitude about life and women, but this all changes when he is forced by his uncle to train as a chef. He soon becomes a top chef and is so... See full summary »

Director: Stergios Niziris | Stars: Yorgos Karamihos, Yorgos Nakos, Theodora Tzimou, Ioanna Tsirigouli

Votes: 118

40. Peperoncino (2021 TV Movie)

60 min | Drama, Romance

It has been ten years since the earthquake and tsunami that devastated much of coastal eastern Japan. Many died. Many of the survivors do not wish to remember. A couple send out special ... See full summary »

Stars: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Jun Kunimura, Yoh Yoshida, Akiko Yada

Votes: 8

41. Oishinbo: Kyûkyoku tai shikô chôju ryôri taiketsu!! (1992 TV Movie)

90 min | Animation, Drama

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Director: Yoshio Takeuchi | Stars: Kazuhiko Inoue, Mayumi Shô, Osamu Katô, Rin Mizuhara

42. Oishinbo: Nichibei kome sensô (1993 TV Movie)

89 min | Animation, Drama

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Director: Yoshio Takeuchi | Stars: Kazuhiko Inoue, Mayumi Shô, Osamu Katô, Rin Mizuhara

Votes: 6

43. Al que no quiere caldo se le dan dos tazas (2022)

10 min | Short, Drama

This is the story of Álvaro Romero, a Colombian man whose family was raised by the popular Colombian saying: "those who want no broth shall get two plates". The saying had such a strong ... See full summary »

Director: Alejandro Victoria | Stars: Rodrigo Cárdenas, Antonio Devia, Bernardo García, José Oriol Hernández

44. 50 Layers of Cake (2018)

6 min | Short, Action, Comedy

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Director: Sarah Felicity Root | Stars: Brandon Carrington, Alisa R. Davis, Chris Ewing, Tim Pollack

45. Eda, ya lyublyu tebya! (2015– )

53 min | Reality-TV

Three food experts travel the world, with each one randomly taking either expensive restaurants, street food or family dinners as their study.

Stars: Vladimir Dantes, Nikolay Kamka, Eduard Matsaberidze

Votes: 9

46. The Pizza Man (2011)

32 min | Short, Horror

When a dysfunctional couple calls out for pizza, what gets delivered is not at all what they expected. 30 minutes or its free? Not exactly.

Director: Matthew Burd | Stars: Stacy Casebeer, John Fanjoy, Brian Miller, Steve Vil

47. Why Wine? (2015)

4 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: James Casey | Stars: Eric Asimov, Talia Baiocchi, Thomas Carter, Justin Chearno

48. Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode: Murder Under Glass (1978)

TV-PG | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Food critic Paul Gerard, who has been extorting money from restaurant owners in exchange for good reviews, murders one when threatened with exposure.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Peter Falk, Louis Jourdan, Shera Danese, Richard Dysart

Votes: 2,481

49. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: The Specialty of the House (1987)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An arrogant food critic impressed by the mysterious house specialty meets his match in the southern belle who owns the restaurant and won't reveal her secret family recipe for the dish no matter what he tries.

Director: Allan King | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, John Saxon, Neil Munro, Jennifer Dale

Votes: 105

50. Frasier (1993–2004)
Episode: The Innkeepers (1995)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy

After the brothers hear that Seattle's oldest restaurant is closing its doors, they decide to buy it and become restaurateurs; opening night is a real blast.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin

Votes: 1,470