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100It's tantalizing, delectable and randy, a movie of melting eroticism and toothsome humor.
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91It's built of such exquisite craft -- the acting, the decor, the photography, the music -- that to refuse it is to refuse the very sensations that draw us to art, romance and maybe even life itself.
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90A work of artistry and craftsmanship at the highest level.
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90The most satisfying epicurean feast since "Big Night."
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80It's so easy to be mesmerized by Chocolat's brilliant indulgences that one abandons reason altogether.
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80The film burbles with delightful dialogue and a sparkling sense of life.
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80While there are scenes of wrenching emotional openness and spontaneous charm -- largely due to the irresistible allure and impeccable craft of its ensemble cast -- the degree of calculation apparent in its plot and images undermines its efforts to move and seduce.
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80A sinfully scrumptious bonbon.
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80If Hallström has a problem with tone, it lies in his almost supernatural niceness. Thus, what arrives on-screen is purely a man's feminism, simple and trite and beautiful and vital.
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80Abittersweet fable about the raw joys of human revival.
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80So assured in its manipulative prowess that only afterward do you realize how fully you've been worked over.
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80Chocolat is a seriocomic plea for tolerance, gift-wrapped in the baby blue colors of a fairy tale and served up with a sybaritic smile.
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75The movie is charming and whimsical, and Binoche reigns as a serene and wise goddess.
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75A charming trifle, beautifully filmed in a Currier & Ives setting, with buttery-smooth performances from Binoche and Depp, and enough good tidings in its nougat center to get you through the holidays.
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75A bittersweet confection that few holiday filmgoers will be able to resist, thanks to melt-in-your-mouth performances by Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina and Judi Dench.
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75May not be deep, but it certainly is lip-smacking.
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70A cozy little ode to sensual and culinary pleasure.
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70The director (Hallstrom) and cast are all excellent.
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67It's as agreeably sweet as advertised, with a particularly yummy performance by Juliette Binoche.
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63Too bad Chocolat isn't as seductive as its leading lady.
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63Has an unerring capacity for going soft whenever a hard edge is called for.
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63Certainly satisfies our hunger for a light, bright dessert, yet it may leave you hungry for more.
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50More sugary than satisfying.
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50Like binging on a bottomless box of truffles: Tastes good and sweet at first, but after a while, you start feeling a little green.
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A lighthearted fable with jarring scenes of violence and halfhearted stabs at mystical realism, its saving grace is its gooey center, the luminous Binoche.
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50Never enough goodies to keep the two-hour running time from seeming like three.
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50Like its title implies, Chocolat tastes good in the moment but leaves behind little nutritional substance.
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50Made with a sort of tasteful vulgarity, this movie never disappoints the slack-minded audience's anticipation of the humanistically healing banality, the life-crushing behavioral cliché.
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40I can only bestow this adaptation of Joanne Harris's bestselling novel with such faint praise as "pleasant" and "mildly disarming."
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30Airy, pseudo-folkloric gibberish at best.
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20The movie is barely sufferable.
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