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Metascore®Generally favorable reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
An often remarkable, often infuriating lateral spin on genre material that desperately needs another sesh at the editing table.
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Too often, Purple Butterfly is as impenetrable as Zhang's placid, obdurate beauty.
Mr. Lou synthesizes a wide range of styles and influences - from "Casablanca" to Wong Kar-wai - resulting in a movie that, for all its haunting strangeness, seems curiously familiar.
As atmospheric and moody as a film noir, the stylish, sometimes perplexing Purple Butterfly is a remarkable period piece, evoking the bustling, dense and increasingly dangerous Shanghai of the '30s
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