- Starring: Ashley Greene, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Garner, Olivia Wilde, Ty Burrell, Yara Shahidi
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- Director: Jim Field Smith
- Genre(s): Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 16
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Mixed: 10 out of 16
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Negative: 4 out of 16
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70The 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.
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Sep 19, 201260There's something about this film's churn of goo and grit that lingers ambivalently, difficult to digest.
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38Butter 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.
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