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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 04 Oct 2012

Garner hasn't come across as amusing as she is here in quite some time…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Oct 2012

Plays like one long, slow descent into cloying moralizing and uplift that's well past its expiration date…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 04 Oct 2012

With Sarah Palin, the movie's thinly disguised object of derision, now operating on the fringe of mainstream culture, the entire film feels…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 04 Oct 2012

The movie's entire superior attitude is kind of annoying…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 04 Oct 2012

It's another in the bicoastal indie industry's endless series of self-congratulatory comedies about the alleged dopiness of middle American…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 04 Oct 2012

Director Jim Field Smith keeps the quirky characters coming with smooth efficiency and throws in some nice touches along the way…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 03 Oct 2012

It's a crass, mean-spirited feature that abandons artistry for hackneyed R-rated buffoonery…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 03 Oct 2012

The chance for delicious satire melts away quickly in Butter, a spoof without oomph…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 03 Oct 2012

Butter dearly wants to be a hot-button social satire that plays rough with sacred cows: Midwestern power-moms, the religious right, race, sex,…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 03 Oct 2012

Appropriately enough for a movie built on two-dimensional cartoons of amoral adults and innocent children, Shahidi is the only actor who emerges…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for MSN Movies (470) on 03 Oct 2012

With both Garner and Shahedi providing voice-over, the small-town stakes and the big thematic ideas, Butter feels like someone trying to create…

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By Zeba Blay (27) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Oct 2012

It's the film's unwillingness to deal with the sometimes hilarious and often problematic things its characters say and do that stands as one…

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By Chase Whale (135) for ScreenAnarchy (469) on 03 Oct 2012

Butter is a sassy movie that spreads charm and laughs. And butter…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 03 Oct 2012

Like many comedies about small-town life, Butter is smug in its depiction of its unworldly, petty characters; many of the actors seem invested…

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By Sam Adams (514) for AV Club (2,778) on 03 Oct 2012

A toothless, insufferably smug satire using competitive butter-carving as a weak-tea stand-in for Midwestern politics, Butter is so contemptuous…

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By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 03 Oct 2012

Labored anti-right-wing comedy begins with a ridiculous premise and arbitrarily piles up the outrageousness to a numbing degree…

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By Morgan S (272) on 03 Oct 2012

I had high hopes for this film, especially when taking into account the teaser trailers, but it was truly a flop…

Review of Butter (2012)

By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 03 Oct 2012

Like many comedies about small-town life, Butter is smug in its depiction of its unworldly, petty characters; many of the actors seem invested…

Review of Butter (2012)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 03 Oct 2012

There are a few chuckles along the way (mainly sight gags involving butter), but the commentary is obvious and toothless…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 03 Oct 2012

Pleasant despite being awfully slight and rather mean-spirited—proof that this material might have made a far better picture with a smarter,…

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