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Black Butterfly

2017

Brian Goodman

Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Piper Perabo, Nathalie Rapti Gomez ...

5.1

1,839

Thriller Paul (Antonio Banderas) is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and offers him a place to stay in his wood cabin. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light... Remake of French thriller, "Papillon Noir" by Christian Faure.

	Author	Review
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"Gets the genre job done (...) [Goodman] efficiently stirs up the unease (...) gives it muscle and makes it work"	POS
United States	Derek Smith Slant	"Its incoherent turn of events attempts to stupefy us into mistaking its deeply flawed internal logic for ingenuity (…) Rating: ½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	April Wolfe LA Weekly	"It's as though writers Marc Frydman and Justin Stanley set out to paraphrase some of King's books - specifically 'Misery', 'The Shining' and '1408' (...) [Rhys] mimics the timbre of a monotone, emotionless cop."	NEG
United States	Vikram Murthi rogerebert.com	"A charmless, nonsensical thriller (...) 'Black Butterfly' communicates all of its empty-headed ideas idiotically, but still retains a knowing smugness regarding its intentions (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"Thanks to tight direction by Brian Goodman and lively performances from Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the film’s engaging even when it’s ridiculous (...) A well-constructed suspense film, using very few pieces."	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"The twist on top of the twist was so amateurish, so hacky, so insulting to the viewer... (...) [I give it] two stars (...) to pay tribute to the performances and to a screenplay that was pretty dang great (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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