1. A documentary about the shocking extent of hunger in America, affecting 1 in 4 children.
2. A Place at the Table is advocacy journalism at its best, lining up its facts, illustrating the widespread problem with a few trenchant and compelling cases, and offering solutions.
3. 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" ...
4. So many of the words spoken in Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush's moving documentary about hunger in the U.S., "A Place at the Table," will haunt you long after the film is over.
5. A film that should make you furious. It raises serious issues about our commitment to helping the least fortunate of our citizens.
6. Finding North is a useful, engaging and enraging movie that will enlist supporters for its cause.
7. Revealing little that a moderately informed viewer will not already know, the film shies away from the outrage and bare-knuckle journalism that this shameful topic deserves.
8. 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.
9. An explosive investigative documentary about the injustices emanating from agricultural capitalism, how it's more about who gets to define what food is, and exactly who hugely profits from it.
10. Powerful docu explores the problem of hunger in America.
What is the consensus?
A Place at the Table is a well-reported documentary that raises important questions about the state of hunger in America culture.