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

Fabulous French fairy tale and romance for teens and up.

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

Ultimately, especially coming from director Lasse Hallstrom, such a slight flick doubles as a fat disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2002

If you can't be bothered running a nice warm bath, see this instead.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2001

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2001

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 7, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2001

A sinfully scrumptious bonbon.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2001

One of those whimsical concoctions that tries too hard, and goes too long, for its own good.

Full Review | Jan 4, 2001

Chocolat, like Hallstrom's adaptation of The Cider House Rules, succeeds primarily through its casting.

Full Review | Jan 4, 2001

An appealing comic fable aimed at those with a bittersweet tooth.

| Dec 22, 2000

A lovely film, encouraging to those who need encouragement and confirming to those who know and live by the liberating truth it espouses.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 22, 2000

It wants desperately to seem like a hand-made delight, but you can tell that it comes from a factory.

Full Review | Dec 22, 2000

A sweet little movie.

Full Review | Dec 22, 2000

Suffers from disparate elements.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 22, 2000

Hallstrom, who gets more sticky-sweet with each new release, needs to learn that too much candy can lead to a tummy ache.

| Dec 22, 2000

It's all a bit prefab, but the idea of equating the forces of chocolate and sensual indulgence with the forces of goodness is pretty surefire.

Full Review | Dec 22, 2000

The movie is charming and whimsical, and Binoche reigns as a serene and wise goddess.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 22, 2000

Hardly the stuff of holiday magic.

Full Review | Dec 22, 2000