Los Angeles Times - by Gary Goldstein
The filmmakers vividly illustrate the power and depth of the long-spiraling problem of "food insecurity" by immersing us in the hardscrabble lives of a cross section of our nation's poor. ...read more

Washington Post - by Michael O'Sullivan
The problem, as “Table” shows, isn’t that the next meal never comes. It’s that when it arrives, too often it is filled with empty calories. ...read more

Film.com - by Stephanie Zacharek
A Place at the Table is a fairly no-frills effort, but the ideas behind it are sound. ...read more

Christian Science Monitor - by Peter Rainer
One thing is clear from A Place at the Table: You cannot answer the question “Why are people hungry?,” without also asking “Why are people poor?” ...read more

Chicago Sun-Times - by Bill Stamets
A good documentary that is good for you. The bad news is that broccoli and bananas are neither available nor affordable for many Americans. That's the message of Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush's A Place at the Table, a necessary report on the national issue of hunger. ...read more

Movie Nation - by Roger Moore
It’s a beautifully shot and reasonably balanced film, but one that struggles to find a hopeful note to end on. ...read more

Slant Magazine - by Tomas Hachard
More difficult to convey are the web of moral and political issues that surround the hunger crisis, and A Place at the Table proves its worth most by how it treats this wider set of problems. ...read more

Time - by Mary Pols
The movie is called A Place at the Table and it specifically addresses our country’s hunger crisis. But it also speaks to larger hungers. Hungers for independence, a dignified life, a better chance for ones children — in short, the American dream. See it and weep. ...read more

Wall Street Journal - by Joe Morgenstern
In addition to the dismaying facts and figures is a fuller sense of what hunger can look like, and feel like, among the millions of Americans classified as "food-insecure" — those who may not know, for themselves or their children, where the next meal will come from. ...read more

Village Voice - by Chris Packham
A Place at the Table attempts to document its subject with the progressive angle and emotional effect of such docs as "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Waiting for Superman." ...read more

Variety - by John Anderson
A useful, engaging and enraging movie that will enlist supporters for its cause. ...

Austin Chronicle - by Marjorie Baumgarten
Few are willing to publicly confess their hunger or undernourishment or place it on display. And the problem is kept hidden as long as charitable food banks and soup kitchens continue to disguise the depth of the hunger. A Place at the Table confronts the issue head-on and offers some solutions. ...read more

The A.V. Club - by Scott Tobias
It makes a persuasive argument — which it makes easier by not allowing any counterargument — but it’s unpersuasive as a piece of filmmaking. In laying out its case, it’s manipulative and dull by turns. ...read more

Time Out New York - by Keith Phipps
As an info dump, Table is admirably efficient, addressing everything from obesity to the limits of charity. As a film, it’s less compelling, with only one subject — Philadelphia single mom Barbie Izquierdo — getting enough screen time to put a human face on the crisis. ...read more