Critic Reviews
| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
A fine French comedy-drama.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
It unfolds with the verve and clarity of a piece of music, carefully composed and passionately played.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
With its lovely images of wintertime Paris and its lyrical Michel Legrand music, La Bu^che does take the cake.
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| 80 |
Village Voice
By turns hilarious and wounding.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
A confection that is ultimately better because of its bitterness.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
The fine cast helps an old-fashioned screenplay seem reasonably fresh most of the time.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Suave, witty and wonderfully acted ensemble piece.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
The plot turns on the complicated lives of the daughters, who are played by Sabine Azema, Emmanuelle Beart, and Charlotte Gainsbourg; they, Fabian, and Rich are the main reasons for seeing this picture.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Leighton Klein
The film's invented Paris -- endless restaurants, boutiques, and impossibly large apartments, with a little artificial ''grit'' thrown in -- is pretty, and the neatly wrapped plot provides the comforting illusion that one's own family dramas can be as easily and amusingly resolved.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Enjoy Christmas in Paris, if you don't have enough problems of your own, with this slice of family life from French director Daniele Thompson.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
Sweet but slight pièce de fluff.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Not likely to win any hearts or minds this holiday season, La Bûche finally scores points by virtue of its inoffensiveness: Relax, pour a cuppa nog, and watch somebody else muck up the holidays for once.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Engaging in a soap operatic, rather glib way.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Sweet and insubstantial -- just like the French Christmas cake for which it's named.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
A good opportunity to catch some marvelous acting.
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