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TopTenREVIEWS presents the movie reviews of Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007)

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Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007)

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Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
Overall Rating:3.2962
Avg Critic Score:3.3045

Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007) Movie Reviews

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Excellent
4
48.18%
(53)
Very Good
3
42.73%
(47)
Good
2
9.09%
(10)
Fair
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Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert) Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Here is the life force at its most insistent, lashing out against fate with stubborn resolve. And also with lust, hunger, humor and all of the other notes that this man once played so easily. ...read the complete Diving Bell and the Butterfly movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for ReelViews (James Berardinelli) ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
For many people, there is no hell more unimaginable than having a healthy, active mind trapped in a paralyzed husk of a body. ...read the complete Diving Bell and the Butterfly movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz) Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Left me wondering if Schnabel's arty efforts were really worth the trouble when the real-life story itself was so moving and didn't need such artificial gloss. ...read the complete Diving Bell and the Butterfly movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Rolling Stone (Peter Travers) Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
[Director Schnabel's] best film yet, a high-wire act of visual daring and unquenchable spirit. ...read the complete Diving Bell and the Butterfly movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
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San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)
Director Julian Schnabel uses his skill as a painter to assemble a collage of fantastical images to reveal the exquisite physical wreck that Bauby has become....read the complete Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007) review at San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)
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MTV (Kurt Loder)
Bauby's horrific situation, and the purposefully muted reactions of the people around him...speak for themselves with spare eloquence....read the complete Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007) review at MTV (Kurt Loder)
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Film-Forward.com (Kent Turner)
A small-scale film on a grand-sized canvas: director Julian Schnabel and his cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski, meet the challenge of adapting ... Bauby's 1997 memoir....read the complete Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007) review at Film-Forward.com (Kent Turner)
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