...a watchable piece of work that generally manages to pass the time in a fairly unexceptional way.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 7, 2023

It’s the performances that carry this film and there are enough interesting developments in the story to keep things moving.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2022

The moral argument may be pat and predictable, but the movie disarms you with its charm and its solid craftsmanship...However familiar, the taste is still sweet, the texture light as a souffle, the sentiments pleasantly high caloric.

| Mar 6, 2018

Chocolat is like being force-fed chocolate for two hours.

| Jan 8, 2018

Hallstrm should refrain from preachy parables and move on to an entre

| Original Score: C | May 16, 2012

Fabulous French fairy tale and romance for teens and up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2010

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 7, 2008

It takes the radical stance that people should indulge their pleasures, unless they're really mean, in which case they should eat some chocolate and learn to be nice.

| Original Score: F | Sep 24, 2007

A mythic fable about tolerance and love with the bitter-swet flavor of a candy that's not entirely fresh but still digestible.

| Original Score: C+ | May 31, 2006

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: B- | Apr 9, 2005

Most movies that criticize religion argue for the abolition of institutions. Chocolat suggests the problem lies in how people manipulate religion to get what they want.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Dec 6, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2003

I've not had a film make me crave chockies so much since Willy Wonka.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Whether or not viewers end up licking their fingers to pick up the scraps ... depends on their tolerance for a different type of sugary sin: syrup.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2002

A charming film with serious undertones.

| Oct 21, 2002

Any movie built on the premise that chocolate can cure mental illness, restore marital passion, unite feuding relatives, assuage anger, defeat oppression, inspire art and get you a date with Johnny Depp is all right in my book.

| Oct 15, 2002

A charming romantic fantasy with delicious performances by the entire cast.

| Aug 2, 2002

whimsical and lighthearted, a simple fable with no real message to impart except that Christianity without compassion can quickly dissolve into empty ritual.

| Jun 15, 2002