The subject is so grim you may find that you've forgotten to laugh.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 11, 2005

Gruesome as it may sound, Butchers is a likeable, well-made film and a genuine comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2005

You might not want to dine with this group, especially if they brought the meat. But it's OK to play with the knives a little.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 28, 2005

While it's got a refreshingly dry, nasty tone, the film is never quite as funny as it needs to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 21, 2005

It's much ado about mutton.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 21, 2005

Neither funny nor outrageous nor horrifying nor conventionally affecting.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 14, 2005

You might say it's a case of too many ingredients spoiling the meal.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 7, 2005

Should have been either darker or funnier. Or both.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 7, 2005

Nither high flying enough for the art house nor low down enough for the cult-video shelf.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 6, 2005

Jensen's tone is admirably dry, and the film offers its pleasures through small, writerly details.

| Dec 10, 2004

A sort of reverse Dogme movie, set in a slightly surreal world where everyone and everything is just a bit off-kilter.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2004

It is Jensen's acute sense of life's cruel absurdities that allows him to illuminate how pain and hilarity can continually flow into each other.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 9, 2004

Butchers has little appetite for the darkest questions at the heart of its conceit.

| Nov 30, 2004

The two leads do emerge as kind of likable, in part thanks to Jensen's knack for balancing comedy and the macabre without ever stepping over the line.

| Aug 18, 2004

Deceptivily simple and wickedly funny.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 24, 2004