What's Cooking?

Name: What's Cooking?
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Released: 2000

Synopsis

Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.

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Los Angeles Times
For so brisk and entertaining a film, sharp in its observations but light in its touch, Cooking has unexpected substance and is a formidable accomplishment in that it brings dimension to its nearly 40 principal characters.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Her (Chadha) film tastily demonstrates that variety is the spice of not only American life, but of American cuisine.
70
The New York Times
It's a meal you may feel you've eaten before, but you nonetheless walk away stuffed and happy.
70
Variety
Though often enjoyable, it’s an old-fashioned, feel-good movie whose significance is more sociological than cinematic.
63
USA Today
More interesting as a sociological study than successful as a movie, What's Cooking? gets more involving as it strolls along.
60
TV Guide Magazine
That director and co-writer Gurinder Chadha transforms this sitcom material into a lively and charming film about the melting pot at full boil probably owes something to the fact that her own multicultural bona fides are firmly in order.
50
L.A. Weekly
Despite some grace- ful performances, especially from Ruehl and Kazan, the result is a tepid repast at best.
40
Washington Post
Like too many Thanksgiving dinners, too much squabbling really wreaks havoc on the digestion. Football, anyone?