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Robert W. Butler

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% 4/4 “It delights the 5-year-old in each of us while delivering enough wit and affection to crack the cynical carapace of adult experience. Only a few films have pulled this off. Star Wars makes it look like the most natural thing in the universe.” – Kansas City Star Apr 22, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (1993) 92% 3/4 “"The Wedding Banquet" is perhaps too somber in its second half, but by the end of the film it has nicely tied up all the loose plot threads.” – Kansas City Star Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Saturday Night (2024) 78% C+ “For boomers who grew up on SNL it’s a cultural Where’s Waldo? But even for them it quickly wears out its welcome. The film is populated not with characters but with caricatures. ” – Butler's Cinema Scene Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Number 24 (2024) 100% B “A modest triumph, low-keyed but consistently effective.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Holland (2025) 21% C “Mimi Cave’s film flounders in a stylistic miasma. Not quite comedy. Not quite thriller. No edge. No commitment.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Apr 15, 2025 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 68% 3/4 “Bale delivers an impossible attractive exterior surrounding an empty void, but gives us enough grimly amusing moments to keep us hanging around for the next murder.” – Kansas City Star Apr 4, 2025 Full Review The Gorge (2025) 63% C+ “Production values are solid, but The Gorge suffers from the great gaping hole that afflicts so many sci-fi/horror entries -- a great buildup to a mediocre reveal.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Flow (2024) 97% B+ “Creator Gints Zilbalodis packs his feature with so much intoxicating visual information and so many interesting characters and situations that our attention never wanders.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Feb 19, 2025 Full Review A Different Man (2024) 93% B- “Schimberg’s film suggests that Edward wasn’t a particularly likable individual before his transformation, and even less so after. But you might very well consider going home with Oswald.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Feb 8, 2025 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% B “For its first hour, at least, The Substance is riveting stuff, a mashup of social commentary, a vicious satire of showbiz duplicity, an angry examination of feminine angst and a staggering truckload of Cronenberg-level body horror.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Feb 8, 2025 Full Review Eraserhead (1977) 87% “It's a tour de force of moviemaking. But how could anyone sit through it more than once?” – Kansas City Star Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% 3/4 “At a time when Hollywood is just a glamorous assembly line, churning out the cinematic equivalent of designer jeans, Blue Velvet hits us between the eyes like a well-swung pool cue in a barroom brawl.” – Kansas City Star Jan 22, 2025 Full Review A Real Pain (2024) 96% B “Jesse Eisenberg doesn’t shy from the big issues. What’s amazing about A Real Pain is the way he deftly balances the comedic and the dramatic (even the tragic). It’s a nifty trick that has eluded even veteran filmmakers.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Jan 7, 2025 Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 91% B “On many levels Nickel Boys is a brilliant piece of work. So I feel somewhat churlish in stating that the thing that makes it work -- the first-person camera -- is also the thing that kept me at arm’s length emotionally.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Jan 7, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% B+ “Some filmmakers spend a lifetime to become merely competent at their craft. With only his third feature Brady Corbet has delivered a masterwork. We’re talking Orson Welles-level talent.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Dec 31, 2024 Full Review Queer (2024) 77% B- “At well over two hours, Queer begs for some tightening. Still, at various moments it’s a genuinely hallucinogenic experience.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Dec 31, 2024 Full Review The Fire Inside (2024) 93% B- “Henry can play just about anything, but his ace in the hole is his ability to express basic human decency without a trace of self-consciousness. A character like this one makes you want to be a better person.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Dec 31, 2024 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% B “Reijn pulls off the near impossible here by delivering a huge blast of eroticism while avoiding the whole male gaze thing. It’s the most overtly sexual performance of Kidman’s career, but it never veers into exploitation.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Dec 31, 2024 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 84% B “Much of the dialogue has a flowery late Victorian melodramatic feel that borders on the laughable. And the characters aren’t particularly compelling. But the look of the piece is simply fantastic. ” – Butler's Cinema Scene Dec 31, 2024 Full Review Tarzan (1999) 90% 3/4 “A semi-masterpiece whose soul-stirring moments, high ambitions and dramatic daring are diluted by the filmmakers' penchant for audience pandering. Don't misunderstand. This is a good movie. But it came this close to being great.” – Kansas City Star Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Mulan (1998) 92% 3.5/4 “Mulan emerges as the most adult Disney effort since Beauty and the Beast. It evokes emotion without cheesy sentiment and explores layers of meaning that are rare enough in live-action films, much less cartoons.” – Kansas City Star Dec 20, 2024 Full Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) 80% 3/4 “Both very brave and very cowardly, determined to stick its neck out politically but unwilling to forgo the formulaic elements... It's an uneasy marriage, and a perfect example of how good -- and how exasperating -- American movies can be.” – Kansas City Star Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 58% 3/4 “Pocahontas triumphs when it forgets about patting the kiddies on their heads... When it reaches deep into its makers' imaginations to render concrete the ephemeral ideas and emotions at its core, the film achieves new levels of animated artistry.” – Kansas City Star Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Young Woman and the Sea (2024) 88% C “Narratively forced, psychologically shallow, aggressively inspirational.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Look Into My Eyes (2024) 91% B “Look into My Eyes won’t convince anyone of anything. But the film does suggest that psychic readings may provide emotional benefits for both parties, irregardless of any paranormal implications. Maybe we’re looking at it all wrong. It’s therapy.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Dec 17, 2024 Full Review
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