Critic Reviews

• Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

  Movies that truly have the capacity to delight - that amuse and lift the spirits and create a warm feeling - are rare. "Romantics Anonymous" is one of those rare delights.

• David Jenkins, Time Out

  It'll be too light and frothy for some tastes, but it's bound to leave you with a warm glow.

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  A mug of warm cocoa with marshmallow topping that produces a comfy feel-good glow.

• Sara Stewart, New York Post

  An adorable, quirky chocolatier looking for love? One guess which country this heavily whimsical comedy hails from.

• Eric Hynes, Time Out New York

  Boy meets girl. Boy likes girl. Girl faints and boy jumps out the bathroom window.

• Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice

  Améris's recipe here calls for everything in moderation, resulting in a movie that never threatens to offend nor, particularly, to delight, though it does offer a good view on a modestly charming actors' duet.

• Jim Schembri, 3AW

  Flighty, feather-light French romantic comedy...A very pleasant treat.

• CJ Johnson, ABC Radio (Australia)

  If you really like French ambience, this film is drowning in it. But don't expect Amelie or Chocolat. This film is far less witty, charming and moving than those films, no matter how desperately it tries to emulate them.

• Tim Martain, The Mercury

  So much is conveyed in what isn't said: the half-finished words, the broken syllables, the inarticulate noises, even the silences.

• Matthew Pejkovic, Matt's Movie Reviews

  Romantics Anonymous is a delightfully sweet comedy where love, chocolate and social anxiety blend to make a deliciously offbeat treat.

• Matthew Toomey, ABC Radio Brisbane

  Whilst I hoped there would be a little more substance, I still found myself caught up in the charm of this farce.

• Jason Best, Movie Talk

  Set in Lyon amid the world of chocolate making, this charmingly old-fashioned French romantic comedy is a truly mouth-watering confection.

• Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile

  The tone is unashamedly sentimental, and the performances are too often played for laughs, so the film ends up feeling rather thin and inconsequential

• Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile

  As sweet as chocolate that's spiced with bitterness of varying degrees, this whimsical charmer about two eccentrics weighed down by anxiety, is a delight

• Rebecca Barry, Flicks.co.nz

  The script is witty, the chemistry just right, and the overall effect so sweet it's a little like eating too much chocolate.

• Simon Miraudo, Quickflix

  Romantics Anonymous is about emotional-cripples who find love in one another's awkward embrace. They're cutesy. They're clumsy. They're also chocolatiers. Seriously, abandon hate, all ye who enter here.

• , Film4

  A frothy confection about awkward love that may strike a chord with bashful would-be suitors.

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  Ridiculously charming and almost too sweet for its own good, this is an enjoyable French romcom (or Fromcom) with a witty script and delightful performances from Poelvoorde and Carre, though it's also a little on the slight side.

• Philip French, Observer [UK]

  It is a pleasant little film, reminiscent in tone of the 1930s comedies of René Clair and Jean Renoir.

• David Edwards, Daily Mirror [UK]

  The French are starting to have a monopoly on whimsical romantic comedies and, with this piece of amiable fluff, it's business as usual.

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