1. Film Review: 'Waitress' - Variety
May 1, 2007 · This tale of a pregnant small-town woman caught between a bad marriage and a risky affair is mostly as funny and charming as intended.
While Keri Russell's "Waitress" may not be world-shaking, it's a warm and accomplished seriocomedy.
2. FILM REVIEW - A Slice of Americana, Served With a Sad Smile
May 2, 2007 · Part feminist fable, part romantic fairy tale, it is by turns tart and sweet, charming and tough, rather like its heroine and like Keri Russell.
Stuck in a marriage to a man she loathes, inconveniently pregnant with his child, oppressed by long hours waiting tables for a grouchy boss, Jenna finds relief baking pies. As lovingly filmed as they are made, these creations serve as both therapy and art. Jenna gives them whimsical names -- ''I don't want Earl's baby pie,'' for instance -- and combines unlikely ingredients to unfailingly delicious effect.
Adrienne Shelly, who wrote and directed ''Waitress'' (and who plays one of Jenna's co-workers), demonstrates a similar confectionary gift. The movie, her third and last feature before she was murdered in November, blends familiar elements into something both satisfying and surprising. Part feminist fable, part romantic fairy tale, it is by turns tart and sweet, charming and tough, rather like its heroine and like Keri Russell, the plucky, pretty, nimble actress (still perhaps best known as Felicity, from the television coming-of-age melodrama of the same name) who plays her.
3. Waitress | Movies - The Guardian
Aug 9, 2007 · Peter Bradshaw: Sentimental, sickly-sweet, with chillingly reactionary overtones and a fatuously naive approach to spousal abuse.
Peter Bradshaw: Sentimental, sickly-sweet, with chillingly reactionary overtones and a fatuously naive approach to spousal abuse.
4. Waitress Movie Review | Common Sense Media
Jun 20, 2023 · Although this quirky indie dramedy is ultimately heartwarming, it tackles very mature themes like spousal abuse (emotional and physical), loneliness, ...
Indie tackles tough topics but is as sweet as pie. Read Common Sense Media's Waitress review, age rating, and parents guide.
5. Waitress - Movie Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes
Waitress is a beautiful and poignant swan song for what should have been the vanguard of a blossoming career. Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 ...
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6. Adrienne Shelly's Waitress reviewed.
May 4, 2007 · ... Waitress is, by any reasonable standard, a fairly mediocre movie. But the two facts, that of Shelly's death and of the movie's release, are ...
A week after seeing Waitress, I still tear up when I think of its closing theme, a catchy little lullaby about pies that was co-written by the movie's...
7. "Waitress" Review - The Independent Critic
"Waitress" is a romantic, spirited, innocent and beautiful film flavored ever-so lightly by sprinklings of tragedy, pain, loss and uncertainty.
See AlsoBinchou-Tan Manga 19The Independent Critic offers movie reviews, interviews, and festival coverage from award-winning writer and film journalist Richard Propes.
8. Waitress: The Musical movie review (2023) - Roger Ebert
Dec 7, 2023 · The show is smoothly staged before an appreciative audience, with well-chosen theatrical touches.
The show is smoothly staged before an appreciative audience, with well-chosen theatrical touches.
9. Waitress user reviews - Metacritic
Waitress walks a pretty thin line between dark relationship drama and whimsical comedy and it does so perfectly making the film thoroughly enjoyable while also ...
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10. Movie Review: Waitress - Box Office Prophets
May 31, 2007 · Waitress explores the ins and outs of a small town in the deep South, and particularly the comings and goings of the staff and patrons of Joe's pie diner.
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11. Waitress - Plugged In
Movie Review. Forrest Gump's mama always said life is like a box of chocolates. Jenna believes life is like a slice of pie. Make that hundreds of slices ...
Waitress is a tale about love, motherhood and baking desserts. Are the themes sweet and filling, or just plain flaky?
12. Movie Review: Waitress (2007) - LiveJournal
Jan 24, 2008 · Waitress (2007) Starring: Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Adrienne Shelly, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith, Eddie Jemison, ...
Waitress (2007) Starring: Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Adrienne Shelly, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith, Eddie Jemison, Lew Temple Directed by: Adrienne Shelly This is a movie full of elements that would normally instantly turn me off of it, including an affected indie-quirk presentation…
13. “Waitress,” review by Susan Granger - Alliance of Women Film Journalists
Apr 27, 2007 · It's a tribute to her, radiant Keri Russell – as the “queen of kindness and goodness” – and cinematographer Matthew Irving that this flaky, ...
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14. Waitress (review) - FlickFilosopher.com
May 18, 2007 · I don't know how Adrienne Shelly got around that, whether she raised the small budget for what turned out to be her last film herself or what.
It’s funny how we can go from a comedy about molestation -- Garry Marshall’s repulsive *Georgia Rule* -- that’s not just desperately unfunny but actively disgusting to a comedy about professionally unethical behavior, spousal abuse, adultery, and stalking that is warmly bittersweet, genuinely funny, and sincerely heartfelt. But there we are.