Butter
Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: October 5, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
11
Negative:
8
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
USA TodayScott BowlesOct 7, 2012
It's been a long time since a movie wasted this much talent. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrOct 4, 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, you name it. Mostly, it wants to be an Alexander Payne movie from the 1990s. "Citizen Ruth," say, or "Election." Instead, it's a shrill, cartoonish mess. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubSam AdamsOct 3, 2012
A toothless, insufferably smug satire using competitive butter-carving as a weak-tea stand-in for Midwestern politics, Butter is so contemptuous of its corn-fed rubes, it might as well be a Trojan horse crafted to prove the movie industry's liberal bias. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumSep 19, 2012
Self-righteous and smug in its use of heartland stereotypes, the movie backfires by assuming that its intended liberal audience is just as intolerant and condescending as the conservative opposition insists it is. Read full review
30
Village VoiceNick SchagerOct 7, 2012
Plays like one long, slow descent into cloying moralizing and uplift that's well past its expiration date. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithOct 5, 2012
It's another in the bicoastal indie industry's endless series of self-congratulatory comedies about the alleged dopiness of middle American hicks who do things like read Parade magazine and decorate with flags. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOct 4, 2012
Butter is a misfire. At 90 minutes it feels inflated, and though clearly intended as funny, it's difficult to locate, except in the most general terms, the focus of the movie's satire, and there's not a laugh to be had. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriOct 5, 2012
Butter essentially eats its own premise, then proceeds to bludgeon us with unfunny, unoriginal political satire. Read full review
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