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Blood and Chocolate
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33 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 16 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 16
  3. Negative: 8 out of 16
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  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    70
    Never having read the book, I found Blood and Chocolate to be a lovely surprise, an imaginative and visually lush picture firmly rooted in the tradition of gothic romance and elegiac horror films about misunderstood monsters.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Brown
    58
    Werewolves are tame with overuse, and movies like Blood and Chocolate -- where moments of inspiration vie in vain with Goth cliché -- play like underlit "Charmed" reruns.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    A far cry from such sneakily subversive werewolf-sex tales as "The Company of Wolves" (1984) or "Ginver Snaps" (2000), this pallid little picture is all "Lost Boys" (1987) posturing by way of the sublimely ridiculous "Covenant" (2006).
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Michael Hardy
    50
    Entertaining in a B-movie sort of way, and you can't help admiring its earnestness about the philosophical issues it invokes.
  5. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    40
    The lead performers certainly are highly attractive, making this one of the more sensual werewolf pictures in quite a while -- and to their credit, they do manage to keep a straight face throughout. But ultimately, the anemic Blood and Chocolate could have benefited from a little less chocolate and a lot more blood.
  6. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    40
    Not as yummy as it sounds, true, but nowhere near as godawful as "Van Helsing," a small mercy but very much appreciated.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    40
    Uninvolving and cliché-ridden (even shape-shifters, it seems, deserve a falling-in-love montage), Blood & Chocolate is "Romeo and Juliet" with fewer manners and more exotic dentition.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Peter Debruge
    40
    The entire star-crossed scenario is conveyed with the narrative simplicity of a musicvideo, lingering in an almost fetishistic manner on sensual details (boxes of chocolates, a blood-red ribbon) while compressing important elements of the story into clumsy montages.
  9. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Robert Dominguez
    38
    Though technically a werewolf movie, the silly Blood and Chocolate is really just a toothless love story about the bad stuff that can happen when two very different people fall in love.
  10. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    38
    Horror fans will be disgusted by the lack of gore. Romance fans will be disgusted by the presence of gore. One is tempted to applaud the filmmakers for trying something this daring, but the result isn't good enough to warrant any acclaim, however lukewarm it might be.
  11. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Lael Loewenstein
    30
    It's a relentlessly silly horror/fantasy/romance that is merely the latest twist on a tired premise.
  12. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    30
    Good movie roles have generally eluded her (Agnes Bruckner), and she labors in vain to keep this big-studio horror confection alive.
  13. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Hartlaub
    25
    Not since "An American Werewolf in London" in 1981 reset the standard for man-to-wolf transformations has anyone tried to get away with special effects as pitiful as the ones in this movie.
  14. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    25
    A romantic triangle between werewolves and humans doesn't sound dull, but director Katja von Garnier seems to determined to drain the life out of it.
  15. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    20
    If you care a thing about your evening's entertainment, you'll walk out of this howler before you ever buy a ticket.
  16. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    12
    As for the script, a wittier director would have spotted the absurd elements and delivered a horror-comedy instead of a straight-faced bore.
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5.3 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. ALF
    7
    I found myself in agreement with Stephanie Zacharek of salon.com. I quite liked this movie and thought most of it was visually very beautiful. It is a film I would quite happily watch again and was a different look at the world of lycanthropes. It was also nice to see Agnes Bruckner and I thought she carried the film fairly well. There were some weak parts but on the whole that I think was more the fault of casting than script or directing. If you like fantasy, werewolves, then this will give you something new to howl about :)!… Full Review »
  2. Buddhamind
    4
    The movie is boring and badly acted. I watched 20 minutes and just got so bored I wanted to do something more interesting like riding on my bicycle. It's not that I don't like werewolf movies. I am actually quite a big fan of vampire movies and werewolves have a similar atmosphere to them. But this movie just sucks.… Full Review »
  3. JaredC.
    10
    Great plot and great action.
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