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El Bulli: Cooking in Progress Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    61

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 30

    out of 100

    The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

    Anyone looking for the lowdown on haute cuisine will be sorely disappointed: devoid of emotion, context or narrative, the baffling avant-garde techniques and extreme politesse of the lab become oppressively dull.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Village Voice

    Cooking in Progress is, in fact, all magic and no path: This is extreme fly-on-the-wall vérité, with only the barest context provided (no helpful TV-style titles here - when it comes to identifying ingredients and techniques, viewers are usually left to their own devices) as the culinary impossible is realized one painstaking step at a time.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    Variety

    The immaculately crafted documentary doesn't reveal much about Adria the man, other than that he insists on quiet in his kitchen.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times

    Adrià's philosophy of food emerges through watching him work; the look on his face as he tries dish after dish, the level of concentration applied to getting an ice vinaigrette just so, explains it all.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

    The film never quite pins the chef down about any of this but in his menu introduction to the staff or off-hand remarks to long-time colleagues you begin to understand the mindset. "The more bewilderment, the better," he declares. He is not joking.

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  • 91

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    El Bulli becomes a haunting celebration of the human desire to turn food into art - even if the results are consciously insane.

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