Merci pour le chocolat
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82 out of 100

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  • Summary: A mystery thriller set on the lakeside of Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    100
    It is a movie about the gradual erosion of life's seeming certainties, and it's also about the destructive immorality that may lie beneath the most exquisitely composed veneer. As we watch "Chocolat," this great director and his great actress, Huppert, convince us: Evil is.
  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    80
    Chabrol handles the upended family dynamic beautifully until the final third, when a wildly implausible sequence of events lessens the suspense just as he should be turning the screws.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    80
    The story proceeds, by minuscule tonal shifts and barely perceptible changes in the atmospheric temperature, from touches of ghoulish comedy -- to the creepy stillness of death that pervades the house.
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    The film is ridiculously overplotted, and very little of the plot serves any purpose other than to motivate what you can pretty well guess is going to happen from the outset.

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