Reviews

• By the end of the movie, we have been through an emotional and a sensual wringer, in a film of great wisdom and delight.

  Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times
  
  29 November 2012

• The real feast is in the mix of characters, each so finely and unschmaltzily delineated in a script so confident and controlled that even the most passing of participants comes alive.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly
  
  29 November 2012

• A robustly imaginative sleeper

  Mike Clark - USA Today
  
  29 November 2012

• The film is loaded with brotherly affection and with warm, funny and poignant evocations of a gentler time.

  Elvis Mitchell - The New York Times
  
  29 November 2012

• As delicately and deliciously prepared as the dishes it features, Big Night is a lyric to the love of food, family and persuasive acting.

  Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times
  
  29 November 2012