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New York Times writer KIm Severson reviews "Food Inc.", pondering the burgeoning gap between food films of today and yesterday. In decades of the past, food movies were intended to make audiences hungry, chock-full of footage of lavish, sumptuous meals. The last few years have seen an influx of food movies-"Super Size Me", "Fast Food Nation", and most recently, "Food, Inc.". But these are of a different generation, more focused on making our brains rumble rather than our stomachs. 

       "By the time Ang Lee’s “Eat Drink Man Woman” came out in 1994, moviegoers had come to expect food films filled with glistening dumplings, magical dessert and technically perfect kitchen scenes.

        But that was then, before Wal-Mart started selling organic food and Michelle Obama planted a vegetable garden on the White House lawn. Before E. coli was a constant in the food supply, before politicians tried to tax soda and before anyone gave much thought to the living conditions of chickens."

       "'Food, Inc.' is part of a new generation of food films that drip with politics, not sauces. It’s eat-your-peas cinema that could make viewers not want to eat anything at all."

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