Food, Inc. 2

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Food, Inc. 2
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Directed by
Starring
CinematographyJay Redmond
Edited byLeonard Feinstein
Ryan Loeffler
Music byMark Adler
Production
company
Running time
94 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States [1]
LanguageEnglish
Box office$26,502 (US) [1]

Food, Inc. 2 is a 2023 American documentary film directed by Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo, and narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser. It is the sequel to the 2008 film Food, Inc. . The film focuses on corporate consolidation in the American food and agriculture business. [2] [3]

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Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 78% of 18 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7/10. [4] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [5]

Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, "This is an engaging and watchable activist documentary that does make way for optimism in its last minutes, but doesn't, um, sugarcoat its envoi about changing our eating ways: 'Not only can we do it, we have to.'" [6]

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References

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  2. Kenigsberg, Ben (April 11, 2024). "'Food, Inc. 2' Review: A Second Course". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved April 18, 2024.
  3. ""Food, Inc. 2" producers discuss the importance of greater transparency within our food system". April 14, 2024.
  4. "Food, Inc. 2". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  5. "Food, Inc. 2". Metacritic . Retrieved June 6, 2024.
  6. Kenny, Glenn (April 11, 2024). "Food, Inc. 2". RogerEbert.com . Retrieved May 20, 2024.