Butterfly(La lengua de las mariposas)

Dallas Observer by Bill Gallo

The movies' time-honored old-man-and-boy theme has rarely been used to such great advantage.

Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach

A movie of unforced nobility and quiet pleasures, Butterfly works on all sorts of levels.

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

Delicate, quietly devastating.

Film.com by Ernest Hardy

In the end, Butterfly is an infuriating film because it's so very contrived, so annoyingly phony.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

A beautiful, harrowing film of understated power and perception that affords Fernando Fernán Gómez, the Spanish cinema's great, weathered veteran, yet another of his unforgettable performances.

Chicago Reader by Lisa Alspector

Some delicately interwoven and unresolved subplots help make the young character's rite of passage wholly, disturbingly compelling.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Diverges to become something quite powerfully unnerving and guilt-ridden.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Though beautifully photographed, acted and written (the three source stories are skillfully blended into a single narrative), this leisurely, bittersweet look at a child's loss of innocence ends rather abruptly and inconclusively.

Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten

It's a rare film that can make us look so deeply into the dark soul of the seemingly benign.

Time by Richard Corliss

A savory cocktail with a bitter twist.