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Food, Inc. 2

Food, Inc. 2
A cow with a large barcode pattern
Film poster
Directed by
Starring
CinematographyJay Redmond
Edited byLeonard Feinstein
Ryan Loeffler
Music byMark Adler
Production
companies
Release dates
  • September 1, 2023 (2023-09-01) (TFF)
  • April 9, 2024 (2024-04-09)
Running time
94 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$28,750[2]

Food, Inc. 2 is a 2023 American documentary film directed by Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo, and narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser. It is the sequel to the 2008 film Food, Inc.. The film focuses on corporate consolidation in the American food and agriculture business.[3][4]

Food, Inc. 2 premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival in 2023.[5][6] It was given a limited theatrical release on April 12, 2024.[2]

Reception

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 20 critics' reviews are positive.[7] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[8]

Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com 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.'"[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Food, Inc 2 (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. July 22, 2024. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Food, Inc. 2". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 21, 2025.
  3. ^ Kenigsberg, Ben (April 11, 2024). "'Food, Inc. 2' Review: A Second Course". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
  4. ^ ""Food, Inc. 2" producers discuss the importance of greater transparency within our food system". April 14, 2024.
  5. ^ "Food, Inc. 2". Roco Films. Retrieved July 21, 2025.
  6. ^ "'Food, Inc. 2' Premieres At Telluride, Follow Up To Hugely Successful Documentary On Our Broken Food System". Deadline. September 4, 2023. Retrieved July 21, 2025.
  7. ^ "Food, Inc. 2". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 21, 2025.
  8. ^ "Food, Inc. 2". Metacritic. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
  9. ^ Kenny, Glenn (April 11, 2024). "Food, Inc. 2". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
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