You've got to wonder about a film that pitches food as the star. Not that the dishes, prepared by the "Too Hot Tamales" Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, fall short of expectations. Tortilla Soup ...

For a director as young and inexperienced as Maria Ripoli ("Twice Upon a Yesterday") to remake a film as recent, popular and critically acclaimed as Ang Lee's 1994 Oscar-nominee, "Eat Drink Man Woman, ...