Weekend Movie Forecast: Where the Wild Things Are or Black Dynamite

Mike Hale at the Times calls documentary Food Beware "a cheerfully one-sided film mostly set in the town of Barjac, where the mayor decreed that the kitchen serving the local schools would go organic, with what the film portrays as entirely positive results.

"New Yorkers whose children attend schools with enrollments larger than Barjac’s population (1,400) might wonder how well it would work here. It’s easier to devote three hours to preparing fresh bone marrow when you’re serving only 200 meals a day (and when the students will actually eat bone marrow). Food Beware takes a pragmatic, health-based approach, buttressed by frightening statistics about cancer rates among children, that’s a refreshing change from the moral and high-cultural preening that sometimes enter this debate in America."