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In preparation for the next Smackdown Team Experience is traveling back to 2000.

By Ben Miller

The 2000 Best Picture lineup features a blockbuster swords-and-sandals crowd-pleaser, a star vehicle about corporate evil, an ensemble on the war on drugs, and an epic martial arts foreign language film. Those four films are unassailable in this lineup, but then there’s the fifth film: Lasse Hallstrom’s romantic dramedy Chocolat. The film’s legacy is more entrenched in controversy; as its nominations are attributed to shameless Oscar campaigning by Miramax and Harvey Weinstein. But is it the terrible, no-good, very bad film its reputation has made it out to be? The short answer is no, but the long answer is a bit more nuanced...

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