A reasonably uplifting Christmas cookie.
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12/15/00
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Chocolat (2000)
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Reviews Counted:115
Fresh:72
Rotten:43
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Chocolat is a charmingly light-hearted fable with a lovely performance by Binoche.
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Dec 15, 2000 Limited
Box Office: $71,309,760
Synopsis: It is the late 1950s, but it might as well be the late 1850s in a small French town where everyone behaves as they should (supposedly), and attends church regularly. When a strong North wind blows... [More]
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina
Director: Lasse Hallström
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Reviews for Chocolat
Top CriticHallstrom is too lazy to bother inventing any new ways to tell this story.
02/07/01
Filmed so gorgeously, the term eye-candy rolls apropos in the mouth.
01/05/01
Suggests that all a person needs to liberate their soul, forget all the wrongs done to them, and become happy is a piece of candy. It's that simplistic and that stupid.
12/22/00
Este Chocolate podrá ser un poco simple, pero de que sabe rico, ni duda cabe
03/21/01
Hallstrom has created the cinematic equivalent of chocolate on screen. Who could resist?
01/05/01
Labors so desperately to offer a feel-good experience that it ends up being tedious instead.
12/11/00
Top CriticThe picture has an ethereal ambience about it that many will find enchanting enough to forgive its shortcomings.
12/20/00
Often comes off as a glorified sitcom, and vastly predictable.
12/21/00
It wants desperately to seem like a hand-made delight, but you can tell that it comes from a factory.
12/22/00
A charming comic fable set in a small French town whose repressive mayor squares off against a free-spirited woman who dispenses more than sweetness in her chocolate shop.
01/01/00
Wastes the talents of a great cast.
12/20/00
It's all a bit prefab, but the idea of equating the forces of chocolate and sensual indulgence with the forces of goodness is pretty surefire.
12/22/00
Top CriticIt's like the kind of lesson a schoolteacher might prepare for incredibly sleepy students.
07/09/01
A sweetly romantic fable.
12/29/00
Carries on somewhat predictably, but is charming all the way through.
07/12/02
Whether or not viewers end up licking their fingers to pick up the scraps ... depends on their tolerance for a different type of sugary sin: syrup.
12/08/02
Unfortunately, Chocolat is missing the bitter spices that give chocolate its soul. It melts in your mouth, but not in your mind.
12/21/00
The movie is charming and whimsical, and Binoche reigns as a serene and wise goddess.
12/22/00
Top CriticDespite a certain patness build into the fabulist plot, Chocolat is succulent and fun, and its munchy heart has rich veins of chocolate.
12/22/00
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August 01, 2005:
Trailer Bulletin: An Unfinished Life
Finally earning a (limited) release after sitting on a Miramax shelf for about a year is Lasse Hallstrom's "An Unfinished Life," which stars Robert Redford, Morgan... More...
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