An outstanding directional debut of Nadine Labaki.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2024

A buoyant film filled with complex relationships and stirring performances. A tribute to the every day life of those who live and work and love in the city of Beirut.

| Feb 13, 2024

As long as Labaki resists Hollywood tropes and continues to tell stories about her Beirut, she’ll be a director to watch.

| Original Score: A | Sep 21, 2022

If all this makes the film sound more bitter than sweet, rest assured that Labaki... provides Caramel with moments of joy and laughter as well as tears.

| Nov 4, 2020

Five ladies teach us to live together in peace in a broken country: the challenge is impossible, but what a good time spent dreaming. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2020

Utterly inconsequential but completely lovely, and is a strong first film for Labaki as a director.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2019

Caramel is sweet, but it's never sickly, and it never shies away from how these women have to work round what society has planned for them.

| Aug 23, 2018

Extraordinary showpiece of the beauty of Lebanese cinema. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2018

Caramel doesn't have any geopolitical pretensions. It just wants to show that beauty and friendship are universal.

| Original Score: B | Aug 17, 2017

A chick flick form Lebanon, this film has some charm

| Original Score: B- | Jul 30, 2011

It's one of the best films about women you're likely to see this year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2008

Many films these days celebrate female solidarity. Post-feminism, it's almost obligatory. But very few do it as convincingly, and with such style.

| Sep 19, 2008

Taken together, the women tell a universal story about the beauty and battles of daily life.

| Sep 19, 2008

Labaki, who co-wrote the film and also stars, maintains a knowing comic tone throughout.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 19, 2008

The result is a sweet, but certainly not cloying, film about relationships in modern Beirut %u2013 the city to which Labaki dedicates her film.

| Sep 13, 2008

This vibrant and intricate look at the lives of five women in Beirut is tantalisingly sweet as the title suggests. There are themes within the themes and the various stories intersect with compelling fluidity

| Sep 13, 2008

Ritual and rebellion collide in this bittersweet confection casting a rare gaze upon the pleasures, sorrows, dreams and sexual desires of Arab women in the Middle East.

| Jun 21, 2008

Although the film isn't chatty and people are just a little too soap opera-ish photogenic, the film is often understated enough to charm. Small, tender scenes and little details make Caramel a nice, light passing fancy.

Full Review | Jun 5, 2008

Un cálido y entrañable retrato de mujeres, sus historias personales y sus conflictos, en el marco de una sociedad a medio camino entre la modernidad y las tradiciones. Una verdadera revelación.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 31, 2008

[A]s smart and heartfelt as it is observant about the universalities of the lives of women...

| May 5, 2008