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Anita Gates
The New York Times
This is a one-dimensional, sometimes illogical film, but it's certainly good-looking. Full Review
Derek Elley
Variety
Beautiful but lifeless, poetic but unelevated, The Mistress of Spices reps a brave but flawed attempt at that most unforgiving of contemporary genres, magical realism. Full Review
Michael Rechtshaffen
The Hollywood Reporter
Shades of "Like Water for Chocolate" and "Chocolat" -- but unlike the latter's tender Juliette Binoche-Johnny Depp romance, the ordained Rai-McDermott union fails to generate any convincing heat, and no amount of cardamom pods or lotus root is going to help. Full Review
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