Spinning Into Butter
Screen Media Films | Release Date: March 27, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
20
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
2
Negative:
8
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63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Though the movie trails off unsatisfyingly, it raises intriguing and candid, if unanswerable, questions about race relations and political correctness. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis Harvey
In style and content, Sarah Jessica Parker starrer is the kind of earnest, talky, modestly scaled social-issue pic that seems predestined for the smallscreen. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesGlenn Whipp
Despite the film's haphazard choices and aversion to subtlety, Parker and Williamson come off as appealing sparring partners. Read full review
33
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
I don't mind a movie where people spend a lot of time jawboning, but what they say had better be interesting. In Spinning into Butter we are spoon-fed the deep dark revelation that racism can exist as virulently in liberal environs as in reactionary ones. Alert the media. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Despite all the hyperventilating, the movie fails to consider what these crimes mean when, say, the residents of the White House happen to be black. The filmmakers recognize that identity politics are often a trap door. But it's one they're helpless to save themselves from falling through. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
A painfully miscast Parker nervously flips her hair and waves her hands, sitcom-style, as a do-gooding dean of students. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
What seemed sharp and pointed onstage comes across pedantically in the film, which treats its subject with a clumsy heavy-handedness. Read full review
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The New York TimesStephen Holden
Less a movie than an essay. Read full review
20
Village VoiceAaron Hillis
Approaches its ideas of reverse racism and the hypocrisies of tolerance with a heavy hand and odious moralizing. Read full review
0
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
If freshman film students were assigned to make a movie on race relations, this contrived attempt is probably what they'd come up with. Read full review
0
Washington PostDan Kois
The movie suffers most of all from a feeling of creeping irrelevance, as if it's being delivered well after its sell-by date. Read full review
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