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According to Rotten Tomatoes, critics generally panned The Butterfly Effect. The film received only 32% positive reviews overall, and only 18% from their inner circle. A few people did write good reviews, including James Berardinelli and JoBlo. Well, they tried to write good reviews of Ashton Kutcher, but then the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. So they took that as a sign and toned down a few passages.