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  Review by DirkH ★★★★ 10

  That final scene....

  Everything that went before it, the bonds of family, brotherly affection, love, all captured in the simple act of frying an egg.

  Just magical.

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  Review by Daniel Gallegos ★★★★½ 1

  RataTucci

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★½ 2

  that last scene, mamma mia!

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  Review by Jonathan White ★★★★ 9

  I love Letterboxd

  Yesterday, when reading another member’s great observations of Mostly Martha, a chef centric film I quite enjoyed, I noticed he ended with the observation that while good, it wasn’t quite the culinary classic Tampopo, Babette’s Feast ( both of which I consider masterpieces ), Big Night, and Like Water for Chocolate were. I commented on his review that I’ll have to see the latter two, as I loved the former two. I mentioned this to Lise, and she exclaimed ‘you haven’t seen Big Night?!!’ Of course, she had already collected it, and within minutes it was lighting up the screen.

  I loved Big Night

  Like my beloved Babette’s Feast, Big Night steers towards a comestible climax, but…

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  Review by sophie b ★★★★ 3

  i want stanley tucci to make me scrambled eggs

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  Review by Ella Kemp ★★★★ 1

  From now on I will only eat my omelettes in silence and while sitting shoulder to shoulder arm in arm with my brother who is Stanley Tucci

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 3

  Charmingly anti-climatic, beautifully filmed food porn, and Minnie Driver deserves better.

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  Review by Benjamin ★★★★ 1

  As far as I’m concerned this is the live action Mario movie

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  Review by Alyssa Heflin ★★★★ 1

  Kept gasping "oh my god" at the food, at Minnie Driver, at Tony Shalhoub's arms, at how cute Alison Janney is, just a real bevy of riches.

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  Review by chavel ★★★★ 2

  People eat with a lot of gusto in Big Night, this being one of those food movies where the camera angles appropriately capture the food in all its zest. Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott co-directed this fiction about two Italian brothers who run an authentic Italian restaurant in 1950’s New Jersey at a time when no locals appreciate, uh, great food. They can make a timpano, they can make a seafood risotto where the shrimp and scallop are so blended in they are invisible. Secondo and Primo, the brothers with an American dream, are so knee deep in perfect cooking they have failed to see right away that perfectionism is sinking their business.

  With simpatico, Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub…

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  Review by laura ★★★½

  young tony shalhoub, stanley tucci, and marc anthony all work at the same restaurant and people aren’t lining up at the door? i’m appalled

  also!! marc anthony wins best performance in a motion picture for someone that has one line at most but brilliantly stacks eggs onto a tiny piece of bread. cinema at its finest *chef’s kiss*

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  Review by Pher ★★★★½ 1

  35mm print with Q+A by Tony Shalhoub.

  EXTREMELY FUN FACT ALERT:
  We all know that the “it cant rain outside scene” has an extremely long pause that continues to be one of the best moments in all of movie history, but what we DIDN’T know is that it was a long silence because one of the actors missed their line and nobody knew whose turn it was to speak.