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

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

Plays like one long, slow descent into cloying moralizing and uplift that's well past its expiration date. full review

The movie's entire superior attitude is kind of annoying. full review

We're still just scratching the surface of witty, provocative humor as long as envelope-pushing directors such as Jim Field Smith continue to find work. full review

At times, the Midwestern satire "Butter" is almost funny, and in its honor I almost laughed. full review

Director Jim Field Smith keeps the quirky characters coming with smooth efficiency and throws in some nice touches along the way. full review

At 90 minutes it feels inflated, and though clearly intended as funny, it's difficult to locate, except in the most general terms, the focus of the movie's satire, and there's not a laugh to be had. full review

Given the talent assembled for this diversion, you can't believe it's not better. full review

The 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 ... full review

Butter thrives on skewering characters whose self-importance isolates them completely from the consequences of their actions. full review

This film is dumb, blunt-instrument parody. full review

Drippy sentiment and coarse political satire vie for control of "Butter," a two-faced sendup of heartland obsession that wants to have its toast and eat it too. full review

Butter is a film more enamored of its premise than interested in making it work. full review

"Butter" is funny in spots, but it's so preoccupied with landing below-the-belt cultural jabs that it misses the opportunity for laying out biting social commentary. full review

Butter wishes it were a Christopher Guest sendup but comes off like a cheap imitation. full review

A shrill, cartoonish mess - not a total disaster, but no one's idea of a good movie. full review

It's one thing to create biting social satire; it's quite another to shoot at such easy targets. full review

Butter is laid on too thick, and in other places it's spread too thin, and it never quite develops a flavor of its own. full review

About as subtle as a slab of lard served on a slice of ham. full review