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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallUkrainian director Maksym Nakonechnyi’s debut feature is a sensitive, nuanced meditation on war and its effects on the psyche of individuals and nations.
- 65TheWrapNicholas BarberTheWrapNicholas BarberIf Nakonechnyi’s low-key film had come out a year ago, it would have been received as a respectable, serious work from a promising first-time director. In the context of mid-2022, it is heart-rending, yet not quite intense enough.
- 60The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanThe New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanThe film might aim to deliver an aesthetic and emotional jolt, but it is the mundane, interpersonal moments that linger.
- 60VarietyJessica KiangVarietyJessica KiangIt would be unfortunate if this contextual thicket were to obscure the merits of Butterfly Vision, which, while certainly not reinventing the war-is-hell wheel, is interesting to analyse in formal terms, especially in its sometimes effective, sometimes glib use of modern tech.
- 60The GuardianCath ClarkeThe GuardianCath ClarkeThough she might have turned the dial up, Burkovska conveys Lilya’s depression and anxiety, and finally her resilience, with a muted, powerful performance. This might be one to file away for the future, when the current conflict has ended.