''Food, Inc. 2'' is a 2023 American documentary film directed by

Robert Kenner Robert Kenner is an American film and television director, producer, and writer. Kenner is best known for directing the film ''Food, Inc''. as well as the films, '' Command and Control'', '' Merchants of Doubt'', and ''When Strangers Click''. ...

and Melissa Robledo, and narrated by

Michael Pollan Michael Kevin Pollan (; born February 6, 1955) is an American journalist who is a professor and the first Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer at Harvard University. Concurrently, he is the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism and the ...

and

Eric Schlosser Eric Matthew Schlosser (born August 17, 1959) is an American journalist and food writer. He is known for his books '' Fast Food Nation'' (2001), '' Reefer Madness'' (2003), and '' Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and ...

. It is the sequel to the 2008 film '' Food, Inc.''. The film focuses on corporate consolidation in the American food and agriculture business. ''Food, Inc. 2'' premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival in 2023. It was given a

limited theatrical release __FORCETOC__ Limited theatrical release is a film distribution strategy of releasing a new film in a few cinemas across a country, typically art house theaters in major metropolitan markets. Since 1994, a limited theatrical release in the Unite ...

on April 12, 2024.

Reception

Glenn Kenny Glenn Kenny (born August 8, 1959) is an American film critic and journalist. He writes for ''The New York Times'' and '' RogerEbert.com''. Biography Kenny attended William Paterson University, where he majored in English literature.RogerEbert.com ''RogerEbert.com'' is an American film review website that archives reviews written by film critic Roger Ebert for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' and also shares other critics' reviews and essays. The website, underwritten by the ''Chicago Sun-Times ...

'' 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.'"

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