It's at this point where I could include some snarky joke about butter, margarine, and Fabio, but I'm sure you've already come up with them.

| Original Score: C | Jul 30, 2020

Sporting an impressive supporting cast, this high glossed satire of Middle America has charming and hilarious moments, but suffers considerably from a labored, schizophrenic attempt to be politically correct and daring satire at the same time.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 27, 2019

The entire plot for Butter is the kind of wackadoodle delight that one should really experience with fresh eyes and their feet up on a couch with a bowl junk food at their disposal.

| Apr 11, 2019

Butter isn't painful, but neither is it comically nutritious. It's a sculpture that a lot of people put a lot of effort into, but the end result doesn't really say much.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 31, 2019

There's no doubt "Butter" should be saltier, its resemblance to anything political constrained to the slickness of a campaign commercial, proving Smith to be a solid, if unspectacular maker of studio-grade comedies.

| Dec 21, 2018

'Butter' pokes R-rated comedy (lots of swearing) fun at dirty politics, as well as the 4-H club-attending, pie-baking, cow-comparing, butter-carving, red state demographic.

| Original Score: 2.5 | Jun 21, 2016

The final result, however, is a complete oddity that is less an interesting political satire and more the piercing examination of butter carving competitions that no one ever asked for.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 25, 2013

The characters want to melt your heart, but like everything in "Butter," they're just too pat.

| Original Score: D | May 26, 2013

Butter is a dizzying blend of smug satire, surface-level observations and mean-spirited swipes at flyover types. Oh, and take away Olivia Wilde and it's a laugh-free affair.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 2, 2012

A movie concerned with the seemingly ridiculous world of butter carving may not sound like a smart, tear-jerking, must-watch political satire. Yet Jim Field Smith's sophomore effort Butter is all of the above and more.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 1, 2012

Butter has strong moments and has more than a few good jokes, but as a whole it struggles to keep its footing

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2012

As smart, savvy, and witty as the film is at times, it never escapes the inherent identity crisis in its makeup

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 15, 2012

Undeniably strange yet sassy, it spreads subversive, thinly-sliced Americana.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 8, 2012

A heartland-set train wreck of purported satire that is confusingly edited throughout, and full of false moments which betray a lack of rigorous conceptual thought and honesty.

| Original Score: D | Oct 8, 2012

The film's skewering of Middle America is so soft, you could easily cut it with -- what else? -- a butter knife.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 6, 2012

A wicked Midwest satire with razor blades stashed beneath its bright candy-apple surface.

| Oct 5, 2012

Hardly the high-priced spread, this condescending comedy about Middle America will score with some audiences and put off others.

| Oct 5, 2012

It settles for cute when it could have had more bite, and it aims for amusing when it had hilarious in its sights.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 5, 2012

Like its namesake, this small-town ensemble comedy is somewhat oily and lacking in flavor.

| Oct 5, 2012

Another in a long line of bad films set in the Midwest.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 5, 2012