Butter
Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: October 5, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
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Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
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11
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 5, 2012
Butter might have been a dark comedy; here, the humor is twisted but the world is bright as can be. Conservatives and liberals alike take a licking, and yet the art of butter carving emerges unscathed. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonOct 4, 2012
The film grows increasingly mirthful as the characters come into focus, and the casting is the key: Ms. Garner, who also helped produce the film, has a gift for catty roles, and Ms. Wilde is so funny she should play hookers all the time. Read full review
70
Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondOct 3, 2012
With a razor-sharp script and Jennifer Garner winning laughs in a nice change-of-pace role, this cynically funny and pointedly pertinent not-so-subtle spin on the national battle between right and left wing politics scores lots of comic bullseyes. Read full review
65
NPRJoel ArnoldOct 5, 2012
Butter thrives on skewering characters whose self-importance isolates them completely from the consequences of their actions. And while the film's perspective is distinctly liberal, providing several thinly veiled criticisms of conservative politicians, nearly everyone (except Destiny) is guilty of something. Read full review
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