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Robert W. Butler

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A Star Is Born (2018) 90% B EDIT “Unlike a lot of show-biz movies where the acts we see on screen would never wow a real audience, the tunes and performances depicted here are first-rate. ” – Butler's Cinema Scene May 6, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% C+ EDIT ““Crime 101” is an OK ride, but it never gets close to the heights of “Heat.”” – Butler's Cinema Scene May 6, 2026 Full Review Apex (2026) 67% B- EDIT “Baltasar Kormakur's direction is taunt and creepy, slowing sowing seeds of premonition that bloom into outright panic. Pulse-pounding stuff.” – Butler's Cinema Scene May 6, 2026 Full Review Ballerina (2025) 75% C+ EDIT “Here’s the thing… if you can sit through the gosh-awful opening scenes, director Len Wiseman and his crew unleash a slew of spectacularly choreographed fight sequences. ” – Butler's Cinema Scene May 6, 2026 Full Review #Skyking (2026) B EDIT “Most documentaries aim to neatly answer our questions. Patricia Gillespie’s “#Skyking” leaves us in limbo. ” – Butler's Cinema Scene May 6, 2026 Full Review Hamlet (2025) 71% B EDIT “Ultimately, though, it all boils down to our Hamlet, and Ahmed more than holds his own. This actor oozes intensity and physical presence and here he channels it into one of drama’s seminal roles.” – Butler's Cinema Scene May 6, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 86% B EDIT “At the core of it all is Seyfried’s performance, which makes Ann fully human even as she says and does things that many of us find, well, hugely eccentric.” – Butler's Cinema Scene May 6, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% C EDIT “Like the first film, this one was scripted by Alex Garland. But “Bone Temple” reeks of desperation. It’s as if Garland was heaving ideas against a big bloody wall hoping some would stick.” – Butler's Cinema Scene May 6, 2026 Full Review Fantasy Life (2025) 81% B EDIT “Also remarkable is Shear’s ability to balance the film’s moments of poignancy and wry humor. It’s the sort of thing that takes some directors an entire career to nail. He gets it right out of the gate.” – Butler's Cinema Scene May 6, 2026 Full Review Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996) 47% 2/4 EDIT “"Kids in the Hall Brain Candy" is essentially a collection of five-minute bits strung together along a flimsy and uncompelling plot. ” – Kansas City Star Apr 28, 2026 Full Review Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) 85% 2.5/5 EDIT “...one must admit that Ferris Bueller has some terrific moments.” – Kansas City Star Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Fight Club (1999) 81% 3.5/4 EDIT “This nightmarish effort is so aggressively out there that one is dumbfounded that a studio made it. But then, Fincher seems to be the movie industry's own Tyler Durden, surreptitiously working to bring down the system.” – Kansas City Star Apr 21, 2026 Full Review The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) 42% EDIT “Neither O'Neal or Matthau is on board for this lifeless sequel, and they are sadly missed.” – Kansas City Star Apr 15, 2026 Full Review Jerry Maguire (1996) 86% 3/4 EDIT “If the narrative arc of Jerry Maguire follows a familiar master blueprint, the film's particulars are always a surprise. This movie runs for 2 hours 20 minutes but doesn't seem nearly that long.” – Kansas City Star Apr 10, 2026 Full Review James and the Giant Peach (1996) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Selick is a wiz at images, but he and screenwriters Karey Kirkpatrick and Jonathan Roberts haven't quite mastered the craft of effective story telling.” – Kansas City Star Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Victor/Victoria (1982) 85% 3/4 EDIT “As Toddy, Mr. Preston gives one of the best performances of his long career.” – Kansas City Star Apr 8, 2026 Full Review Grease 2 (1982) 22% EDIT “The motherlode of '50s nostalgia was played out years ago, as Grease 2 illustrates so painfully, and the characters are one-dimensional cliches. ” – Kansas City Star Apr 8, 2026 Full Review The Muppet Movie (1979) 89% EDIT “There may be somewhere an unfortunate soul who doesn't know who the Muppets are, but after "The Muppet Movie" he will have no excuse for his lamentably ignorant state.” – Kansas City Star Apr 6, 2026 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 71% B EDIT ““Nuremberg” is most effective in hammering home the idea that the rise of Naziism was not some aberration but rather a sly exploitation of the fears, foible and prejudices that still afflict the human race.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) 93% C+ EDIT “This time around it feels forced and phony -- not that the original was realistic, but it at least radiated originality. “Sisu: Road to Revenge” feels too calculated, too by-the-numbers.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) 90% B- EDIT “Oh, the atmosphere is as brooding as ever, and Murphy is always watchable. But the whole production seems to have been glued together from a bunch of pieces Knight had lying about.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Mar 25, 2026 Full Review The Howling (1981) 76% 3/4 EDIT “The Howling is the werewolf movie you always hoped Hollywood would make.” – Kansas City Star Mar 18, 2026 Full Review RoboCop 3 (1993) 18% 1.5/4 EDIT “The plot cooked up by director Fred Dekker and Frank Miller is strictly leftovers.” – Kansas City Star Mar 16, 2026 Full Review War Machine (2026) 68% C EDIT “Movies don’t get much sillier than “War Machine,” a fascist wet-dream mated to a “War of the Worlds” actioner.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 90% B+ EDIT “Lopez is haunting as a Job-like Everyman being put through one horror after another.” – Butler's Cinema Scene Mar 12, 2026 Full Review
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