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By Mike Scott (1,178) for New Orleans Times-Picayune (573) on 15 Aug 2013

Making it even more intriguing is the fact that the whole thing is, extraordinarily, inspired by a true story…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 15 Aug 2013

Many of the White House scenes are jarringly motley, as Whitaker maintains Gaines' dignity against a series of performances that range from…

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By Greatmartin (455) on 15 Aug 2013

It has been a long time since Hollywood had made a family saga spanning 90 years but it hasn’t been that long since ‘based on a true story’…

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By Jamescannon (26) on 15 Aug 2013

This movie is so cool..it stars a rich black lady who plays a butlers wife…

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By Thegodfatherson (586) on 15 Aug 2013

You hear nothing. You see nothing. You only serve…

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By Dostrovitz4631 (1) on 15 Aug 2013

A powerful movie that illustrates the tragedy of racism and the struggle for equal rights through the life of one man and his family…

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By Willie Waffle (1,383) for WaffleMovies.com (1,380) on 15 Aug 2013

You realize it was released in the summer as an Oscar contender, because it won't be an Oscar contender in November…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 15 Aug 2013

Whitaker stands astride The Butler as solid and unmoving as the Washington Monument…

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By Adam A. Donaldson (21) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 15 Aug 2013

Strong performances and a straight-forward script allows Lee Daniels' The Butler to solidly deliver on expectations…

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By Steve Crum (868) for Video-Reviewmaster.com (514) on 15 Aug 2013

Both (Daniels) and Strong have compressed an engrossing saga covering the Civil Rights Movement, five presidents, a family's generational growth,…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 Aug 2013

It's another of the film's ironies that while Gaines owes his success to an ability to make a room feel empty, Whitaker, even at his most still…

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By Rebecca Cusey (105) for Patheos (85) on 15 Aug 2013

I was moved by this film. I laughed, I teared up. I - dare I say? - related. And that is more powerful than any message movie could ever be…

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By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 15 Aug 2013

The Butler would have been better served by lesser-known cast members carting less baggage into these iconic historical figures…

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By Sandie Angulo Chen (751) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 15 Aug 2013

Well-acted civil rights tale is moving but too formulaic…

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By Perry Seibert (178) for TV Guide (1,527) on 15 Aug 2013

Unlike some cynical attempts to court favor with the Hollywood elite, it's solidly crafted, strongly acted, and -- most excitingly -- it shows…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 15 Aug 2013

Ungainly and overly ambitious, The Butler tries to encompass too much history within too narrow a framework…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 15 Aug 2013

Whitaker’s performance reveals a man who unobtrusively changes white people around him – perhaps without trying or even knowing it –…

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By Dale Roe (24) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 15 Aug 2013

It's a truncated history lesson, to be sure, but one that Lee Daniels' The Butler serves up fairly well…

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By David Berry (137) for National Post (1,405) on 15 Aug 2013

At times maudlin and at other times just smug, dabbed with just enough humour to keep from being insufferable, it's like a victory lap that…

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By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 15 Aug 2013

The film is, in the conventional and lamentable 21st-century Hollywood mode, so overt and obvious that at times it feels like a parody of historical…

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