It's a strangely moving film about talents and passions used and not used.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2018

While Babette's Feast is bleak, and often ponderous and stony, it eventually resolves as a moving hymn to art.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 23, 2013

Light, frothy and sweet on the tongue, but lacking nutrition.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2012

Twenty-five years on, the story is still charming and beguiling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2012

Melancholy bliss.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2012

Still good enough to eat.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 10, 2012

The acting is impeccable and the ambience suffused with delicate charm, but overall this doesn't aim at anything higher than Masterpiece Theatre or a Merchant-Ivory film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 29, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 26, 2003

A quiet celebration of the divine grace that meets us at every turn, and even redeems our ways not taken, our sacrifices and losses.

| Original Score: A+ | May 8, 2002