Mike McCahill of
The Guardian called
Barbecue a "boringly white-bread with no cinematic ambition". While attending
Beijing International Film Festival,
Clarence Tsui of
The Hollywood Reporter had this to say about the film: "[A] half-baked comedy-drama about a group of bourgeois friends who have to confront the pitfalls of middle age". Representing
The New York Times, Nicolas Rapold called the film "[a] kind of utterly unremarkable local product", but added that "its loosely written story doubles as a smirk-inducing glimpse at what feel like very Gallic life challenges". ==References==