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Robert W. Butler

Robert W. Butler

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:
Arizona Republic , Contra Costa Times , Dallas Morning News , Houston Chronicle , Kansas City Star , Sunday Mail (Australia)
Critics' Group:
Kansas City Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
1584

Worst Reviewed Films

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0/4 0% Super Capers (2009) " The first 10 minutes of this mirthless mess was interminable, and it didn't get any better. I'd feel cheated if I'd rented this one from the red box at Mickey D's." — Kansas City Star
Posted Mar 20, 2009
0.5/4 8% 10,000 B.C. (2008) " A strong camp sensibility is just about the only thing that might have saved this lumbering beast." — Kansas City Star
Posted Mar 7, 2008
0.5/4 87% Zatôichi (The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi) (2003) " Overlong, underpopulated and essentially pointless." — Kansas City Star
Posted Sep 3, 2004
.5/4 61% Valentin (2004) " For most of its running time Valentin rambles along in the same gear, providing few highs or lows and generating any real emotional excitement only in the last reel, by which time you've either fallen for the kid or zoned out." — Kansas City Star
Posted Jun 18, 2004
.5/4 61% Saved! (2004) " It isn't ruthless enough to achieve the level of savagery that would make it really offensive -- and truly memorable." — Kansas City Star
Posted Jun 11, 2004
1/4 11% Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil (2011) " This sequel is that rarity -- a film in which practically nothing works." — Kansas City Star
Posted Apr 28, 2011
1/4 19% Just Go with It (2011) " It's painful to watch." — Kansas City Star
Posted Feb 10, 2011
1/4 18% Valentine's Day (2010) " Hope they had fun making Valentine's Day. There's little to be had watching it." — Kansas City Star
Posted Feb 12, 2010
1/4 6% All About Steve (2009) " Maybe a sitcom laugh track would have helped. At least it would provide a hint of where we're supposed to chuckle." — Kansas City Star
Posted Sep 4, 2009
1/4 15% Year One (2009) " Black, who has been hilarious elsewhere, is working so hard to be funny that it's exhausting." — Kansas City Star
Posted Jun 19, 2009
1/4 13% The Informers (2009) " It's almost a relief when one of the characters comes down with a deadly disease." — Kansas City Star
Posted Apr 24, 2009
1/4 22% Push (2009) " A bargain basement melding of clichés from the X-Men franchise and TV's Heroes." — Kansas City Star
Posted Feb 6, 2009
1/4 5% 88 Minutes (2008) " It's not often you encounter a feature film that contains not even one believable minute." — Kansas City Star
Posted Apr 17, 2008
26% Lions for Lambs (2007) " If your idea of a good time at the movies is watching paper-thin characters lob ideological grenades at one another, this is your dream date." — Kansas City Star
Posted Nov 9, 2007
1/4 6% Underclassman (2005) " A cop/teen movie so derivative it could have been written by a computer. Without human assistance." — Kansas City Star
Posted Sep 2, 2005
5% The Perfect Man (2005) " A tweener romantic comedy featuring dialogue so bad it could have been written by a 14-year-old girl." — Kansas City Star
Posted Jun 17, 2005
1/4 20% The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005) " The story is impossible, the acting generally awful and the 3-D effects so unremarkable that you're tempted to yank off the glasses and watch it with the naked eye." — Kansas City Star
Posted Jun 10, 2005
68% Time Regained (1999) " A crashing bore." — Kansas City Star
Posted Jun 3, 2005
80% Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) " Revenge of the Sith completes the big picture and will undoubtedly find favor with a majority of fans. But it isn't a very good movie." — Kansas City Star
Posted May 18, 2005
57% The Interpreter (2005) " A thriller with a lot on its mind (at least that's what the filmmakers want us to believe) but no heart to speak of. Its characters and situations feel phony." — Kansas City Star
Posted Apr 22, 2005
53% Melinda and Melinda (2005) " Whether in tragic or comic mode, [Mitchell] exudes an onscreen charisma that almost makes the drabness surrounding her palatable. Almost, but not quite." — Kansas City Star
Posted Apr 8, 2005
63% Mail Order Wife (2005) " More an exercise in sustaining a style than a satisfying emotional experience. The men are all self-centered boors, and the women, it turns out, aren't much better. There's nobody in this movie to root for or care about." — Kansas City Star
Posted Apr 8, 2005
39% Sahara (2005) " The final product is more like a collection of genre clichés than a compelling story." — Kansas City Star
Posted Apr 8, 2005
44% The Jacket (2005) " The great mystery of The Jacket is how so many really terrific performers got sucked into such a silly movie." — Kansas City Star
Posted Mar 4, 2005
30% Be Cool (2005) " Feels forced and graceless. It's like a clumsy dancer who can't keep up with the sprightly beat being set by the band." — Kansas City Star
Posted Mar 4, 2005
64% Bride and Prejudice (2005) " The musical numbers are still more diverting than the dramatic moments, where the romance is rarely romantic and the stabs at broad comedy fall flat." — Kansas City Star
Posted Feb 25, 2005
53% Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) " Inoffensive fodder for the family trade." — Kansas City Star
Posted Feb 18, 2005
46% Constantine (2005) " All style. No soul." — Kansas City Star
Posted Feb 18, 2005
1% Alone in the Dark (2005) " As an audience-participation midnight movie, Alone in the Dark has potential." — Kansas City Star
Posted Jan 28, 2005
13% Hide and Seek (2005) " Hide and Seek is the worst sort of horror film -- one that takes itself seriously without having anything to back up that attitude." — Kansas City Star
Posted Jan 28, 2005
86% Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters) (2003) " A bit of cinematic showing-off that offers an intriguing puzzle but never really makes us care." — Kansas City Star
Posted Jan 14, 2005
9% White Noise (2005) " You'd never guess from this glum performance that at one time [Michael Keaton] was among our most entertaining comic actors. Here he's just boring." — Kansas City Star
Posted Jan 7, 2005
43% Beyond the Sea (2004) " In dramatic terms Beyond the Sea never rises above the level of a halfway decent made-for-TV film." — Kansas City Star
Posted Dec 30, 2004
53% The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) " For a while, Life Aquatic gets mileage out of its quirkiness and the promise that a real plot will kick in. But it's not to be, and for most of the film's second half it feels like Anderson and his characters are treading water." — Kansas City Star
Posted Dec 24, 2004
13% L.A. Twister (2004) " There are some cute moments here but nothing to write home about. The inside-Hollywood jokes are just that." — Kansas City Star
Posted Dec 10, 2004
76% The Machinist (2004) " A generic Twilight Zone-type thriller" — Kansas City Star
Posted Dec 3, 2004
56% The Polar Express (2004) " Yet another case of Hollywood taking a slight, charming, deeply satisfying book (Chris Van Allsburg's Caldecott-winning title is only 29 pages long, and 26 of those are illustrations) and inflating it into a ponderous movie." — Kansas City Star
Posted Nov 10, 2004
63% Stage Beauty (2004) " Crammed with ideas but undermined by a dramatically fuzzy middle passage in which nothing much happens and a central relationship that doesn't quite wash." — Kansas City Star
Posted Nov 5, 2004
36% Shark Tale (2004) " Forced and frantic." — Kansas City Star
Posted Oct 1, 2004
41% Ladder 49 (2004) " I admire the effort. I just wasn't very interested." — Kansas City Star
Posted Oct 1, 2004
53% A Dirty Shame (2004) " It's rude. It's crude. Every now and then it's bust-a-gut funny. Unfortunately, not often enough." — Kansas City Star
Posted Sep 24, 2004
64% We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) " These are terrifically talented actors wasted on a film that's short on insight, long on self-pity and essentially anti-erotic." — Kansas City Star
Posted Aug 27, 2004
32% King Arthur (2004) " Dreary going, occasionally impressive on a technical level but uninspired as narrative or historic inquiry." — Kansas City Star
Posted Jul 7, 2004
62% Young Adam (2004) " A humorless and dank display of ashcan angst that leaves you wishing theater restrooms had shower facilities." — Kansas City Star
Posted Jun 25, 2004
52% The Notebook (2004) " For those of even a moderately cynical bent, The Notebook is likely to induce apoplectic choking." — Kansas City Star
Posted Jun 25, 2004
50% Ella Enchanted (2004) " Whether audiences find it charming or dreary depends upon their tolerance for cutesy ideas indifferently executed." — Kansas City Star
Posted Apr 8, 2004
1/4 16% The Big Bounce (2004) " Pure disaster." — Kansas City Star
Posted Jan 30, 2004
45% The Young Black Stallion (2003) " The Young Black Stallion will provide a brief diversion for animal-loving youngsters. But beneath its polished good looks it feels awfully amateurish." — Kansas City Star
Posted Dec 26, 2003
1/4 23% Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) " This turkey unfolds like the worst-ever episode of The Brady Bunch, only without a laugh track to tell us when we're supposed to be enjoying ourselves." — Kansas City Star
Posted Dec 25, 2003
20% Honey (2003) " Honey isn't bad enough to be truly memorable." — Kansas City Star
Posted Dec 5, 2003
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