Fast Food Nation

Name: Fast Food Nation
Director: Richard Linklater
Released: 2006

Synopsis

A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.

91
Christian Science Monitor
Viewers expecting a blistering attack on the fast-food business, or an Altmanesque panorama, will be disappointed, but it's a sensitive and humane piece of work.
90
L.A. Weekly
Like two of the year's other standout American films, Kelly Reichardt's "Old Joy" and Ryan Fleck's "Half Nelson," it's a movie of ideas in which the ideas flow effortlessly out of the material instead of being plastered on top with a heavy cement roller (as in "Crash," "Babel" and "Little Children").
83
Entertainment Weekly
Naturally, a subject this right-on draws a right-on cast. Kris Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne, and Ethan Hawke pitch in.
80
The New York Times
It's a mirror and a portrait, and a movie as necessary and nourishing as your next meal.
75
Rolling Stone
It's less an expose of junk-food culture than a human drama, sprinkled with sly, provoking wit, about how that culture defines how we live.
70
Variety
Richard Linklater's rough-hewn tapestry of assorted lives that feed off of and into the American meat industry is both rangy and mangy; it remains appealing for its subversive motives and revelations even as one wishes its knife would have been sharper.
70
Village Voice
A more materialist (and successful) ensemble film than the mystical "Babel," in that everyone is connected through the same economic system, Fast Food Nation is exotic for being a movie about work.
63
ReelViews
One of the great frustrations associated with Fast Food Nation is the way it drops subplots.