movie for people who don't like art house movies." Lisa Schwarzbaum, writing for Entertainment Weekly, graded the film with a 'B−' rating, summarizing it "as agreeably sweet as advertised, with a particularly yummy performance by Juliette Binoche," while Jay Carr from The Boston Globe found that the film "may not be deep, but it certainly is lip-smacking." Mike Clark of USA Today was more cutting in his review, saying that there are "never enough goodies to keep the two-hour running time from seeming like three." In another negative review, Dennis Lim from The Village Voice criticized the film for its "condescending, self-congratulatory attack on provincial sanctimony." He called Chocolat an "airy, pseudo-folkloric gibberish at best." Following the criticisms, Harvey Weinstein challenged the USA Today critic, Andy Seiler, to choose a venue where the film was showing to try to prove to him that audiences liked it even if not all critics did. After the screening in Washington D.C., Weinstein asked the audience for their feedback and no one said anything negative. Accolades References External links Review, The New York Times 2000 films American romance films British romance films Cooking films 2000 multilingual films 2000s French-language films Films about Catholicism Films about chocolate Films about families Films about Romani people Films based on British novels Films directed by Lasse Hallström Films produced by David Brown Films scored by Rachel Portman Films set in France Films set in 1959 Films shot in England Films shot in France Films with atheism-related themes Films with screenplays by Robert Nelson Jacobs Miramax films 2000s English-language films American multilingual films British multilingual films French-language American films 2000s American films 2000s British films