A new film has received an 81% score on Rotten Tomatoes by fans who loved it. Nonnas is a 2025 American biographical comedy-drama film starring Vince Vaughn, Linda Cardellini and .

The film is based on the life of Joe Scaravella, the owner of Staten Island restaurant Enoteca Maria, who risked everything to open an restaurant to honour his recently deceased beloved mother. Established in 2007, the restaurant is known for featuring grandmothers ("nonnas") from around the world as rotating chefs, each preparing traditional home-cooked meals from their native cultures.

Nonnas is dominating Netflix's charts, with 20 million views this week, totalling 35.3 million since its release. It is ahead of A Deadly American Family, Havoc, and Untold: The Liver King.

It also has an 81% score on . The critics' consensus is: "Like a homey dish prepared for family, Nonnas just wants to provide heaping helpings of comfort - and does so with enough charm that audiences may want seconds."

called it a "simple but charming crowd-pleaser" that provides " the sort of mechanically proficient pleasures that used to be far more common back in the 80s or 90s".

said the food-centric movie features "luscious, mouth-watering close-ups of sauces, soups and meats that the seasoned cooks put together". It went on to say that, though beautiful, the food is "not the main course but a vehicle to explore familial bonds".

One viewer said on that Nonnas is "not your average generated content by Netflix", but instead "a real film with emotions". Another said it is "like your grandmother's lasagna: crafted with love and a little cheesy".

But not all loved it, said the story may have been better suited to a "sweet documentary or flavourful indie treatment" instead of "resolutely unobjectionable, iffy-looking Netflix content".