Review: Butter

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Butter


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“If Alexander Payne’s films were remade by Garry Marshall, the result might look something like this effort from Jim Field Smith. Much like the ginger handling of racism in the much loved film The Help from earlier this year, Butter backs away from being realistic in its convictions. What results is a half assed mess that sounds a hell of a lot better and stranger on paper than it presents itself to be on celluloid.”

Nicholas Bell
Nicholas Bell
Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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