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ROBERT W. BUTLER
Robert W. Butler

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• Arizona Republic
• Contra Costa Times
• Dallas Morning News
• Kansas City Star

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Total Reviews: 1124

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Kansas City Film Critics Circle


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"Ultimately the film belongs to Day-Lewis, whose devotion to character is itself a bit mad, and Paul Thomas Anderson, who takes us places no other filmmaker dares." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
There Will Be Blood (2007)92%
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"A great film, a landmark in musical cinema and the best movie of 2007." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)86%
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"[Director] Bier steers clear of Hollywood formula. Her low-key, natural style comes by its drama honestly, with little manipulation and lots of character development." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)64%
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"Sean Penn’s achingly poetic Into the Wild seduces gently, creeping up in incremental steps. Yet in the end it leaves us drained and devastated." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
Into the Wild (2007)83%
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"Even people who hate Michael Moore might warm up to Sicko, an indictment of America’s health care industry so damning that it could galvanize citizens from all over the political spectrum." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Jun 29, 2007
 
Sicko (2007)93%
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"While lacking a conventional plot arc, PHC nevertheless is totally engaging, crammed with laughable, lovable vignettes and characters with whom we’re more than happy to spend some time." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Jun 9, 2006
 
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)80%
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"You won't find ensemble acting much better or writing more incisive than that in Nine Lives ..." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Jan 27, 2006
 
Nine Lives (2005)75%
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"Moment for moment I derived more pure pleasure from this Pride & Prejudice than any other movie I've seen this year. It is nearly perfect." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Nov 11, 2005
 
Pride and Prejudice (2005)85%
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"An Unfinished Life is so good that it makes you believe in Hollywood again." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Sep 9, 2005
 
An Unfinished Life (2005)53%
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"A brilliant character study within a detailed snapshot of a moment in English history and society, a perfectly realized environment that makes you forget this is a filmed artifice populated with actors." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Feb 4, 2005
 
Vera Drake (2004)92%
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"Here's the richest, funniest and perhaps most moving film of the year, featuring a performance from Paul Giamatti that should win him the Oscar." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Nov 19, 2004
 
Sideways (2004)96%
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"Team America: World Police is this decade's Dr. Strangelove." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Oct 15, 2004
 
Team America: World Police (2004)78%
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"You don't need to have seen Before Sunrise to appreciate Before Sunset, but as a one-two cinematic punch on the subjects of love and aging these films have few equals." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Jul 9, 2004
 
Before Sunset (2004)94%
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"While seemingly a straightforward murder mystery in a matter-of-fact setting, it is never quite what it seems, and it percolates with themes and ideas of astonishing richness." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Oct 17, 2003
 
Mystic River (2003)87%
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"It's an exquisitely timed and organized drama, one that regularly detonates with nuclear-strength revelations that force us to stop and reconsider everything that has come before." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Aug 1, 2003
 
Capturing the Friedmans (2003)97%
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"Populated with personalities so completely rendered that they're as believable as the people next door." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Jun 6, 2003
 
Nowhere in Africa (2003)85%
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"Don’t go to Killer of Sheep expecting a conventional movie experience. This is an art film, a realistic-yet-poetic examination of a time and place and the people stranded there." -- Kansas City Star
Posted Aug 3, 2007
 
Killer of Sheep (1977)97%

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