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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 15 Aug 2013

The Butler may be a sanctimonious cartoon, but it points to events in the civil rights struggle that were as grotesque and extraordinary as…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 15 Aug 2013

The Butler mixes big issues and big people and real human life with surprising grace…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 15 Aug 2013

It's too obviously a careful tour through American history, and while some sequences work - particularly the various attacks on civil-rights…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 15 Aug 2013

[E]ventually, the intentions of Lee Daniels' The Butler are overpowered by [the coincidences] and the heavy-handed way they serve as bridge…

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By Leonard Maltin (609) for leonardmaltin.com (584) on 15 Aug 2013

Cecil Gaines may be a fictionalized character, but he carries a lot of weight on his shoulders, beautifully interpreted by Forest Whitaker…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 14 Aug 2013

For all its faults - and there are many, from shameless compression of events to milk the drama for all it's worth, to the gimmicky miscasting…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 14 Aug 2013

With Whitaker, Daniels and screenwriter Danny Strong pulling the strings, The Butler can take a bow…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 14 Aug 2013

The director’s sometimes absurd bravado — along with Forest Whitaker’s grave, wise performance in the title role — is what gives this…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 14 Aug 2013

It's watching Cecil open his eyes, in Whitaker's reflective, powerfully understated performance, that fills this flawed film with potency and…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 14 Aug 2013

The butler, Cecil Gaines, is a fictional creation, an African-American Forrest Gump who bears special witness to the civil-rights movement…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 14 Aug 2013

A nice idea for a movie, but has a mostly silly script and some of the craziest and most laughable casting imaginable…

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By Jeffrey Lyles (696) for Lyles' Movie Files (591) on 14 Aug 2013

A well-meaning, but overly long history lesson that largely finds its captivating hook whenever the attention is focused off its title character…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Richard Roeper.com (322) on 14 Aug 2013

This is an important film presented as mainstream entertainment. It’s a great American story…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for ScreenAnarchy (469) on 14 Aug 2013

What The Butler tries to accomplish is so noble and ambitious that it almost doesn't matter how clumsily maudlin it ends up being, how over-earnest…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Beliefnet (937) on 14 Aug 2013

This cavalcade of star power is just the frame…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Washington Post (9,851) on 14 Aug 2013

Even as Cecil lives his life slightly adjacent to history, building a heroic film around him requires herculean effort…

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By Bill Gibron (1,013) for Film Racket (579) on 14 Aug 2013

Entertaining if still a bit artificial, The Butler is destined to dust up some Award Season merit come the end of the year…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 14 Aug 2013

There are two sides to every story, and Lee Daniels' The Butler personifies both of them…

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By Matt Kelemen (219) for AspectRatio.us (70) on 14 Aug 2013

If only it could have been Spike Lee's The Butler…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Aug 2013

The movie's a mess, but a unique and provocative one…

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