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A gorgeously shot, ambitious epic.Full Review

San Francisco Chronicle

A gorgeously shot, ambitious epic.Full Review

G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle

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 '30sFull Review

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times

Hectic, lyrical, swooningly romantic and almost unwatchably brutal, Purple Butterfly deploys a modern Asian gangster-movie aesthetic to tell a love story of Shakespearean dimensions.Full Review

Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly

A sumptuously moody memory play.Full Review

Noel Murray
The Onion A.V. Club
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