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M. Butterfly Review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    43

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 10

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    After sitting through M. Butterfly, you'll wonder why they even bothered to try. [01 Oct 1993]

  • 30

    out of 100

    Variety Todd McCarthy

    This butterfly just doesn't fly. Icy, surprisingly conventional and never truly convincing.

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  • 42

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Cronenberg directs this doomed romance in the same flat, claustrophobic, night-of-the-zombies style he employed in ''Naked Lunch''; as a dramatist, he's still stuck in Interzone.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    USA Today Mike Clark

    One hesitates to call David Cronenberg's movie of David Henry Hwang's Tony-winning play conventional or tame, but certainly it is zestless given a filmmaker whose last three outings have been "The Fly," "Dead Ringers" and "Naked Lunch." [01 Oct 1993]

  • 50

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    The movie, however, seems to make the wrong decision at almost every opportunity, trying for the kind of melodramatic tragedy that only works in opera.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    The New York Times Janet Maslin

    M. Butterfly as idiosyncratic as Mr. Cronenberg's work always is, is sometimes too flat and ambiguous for its own good.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    M. Butterfly does not take hold the way the stage play did.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

    M. Butterfly, David Cronenberg's visually stunning but oddly cold and sparkless adaptation of the much-prized David Henry Hwang play. [08 Oct 1993]

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