The Butler in Three Reviews
The White Review:If the fact that Oprah is in it isn’t enough to get you to a theater to see a film directed by a black person, let me further make the case here that you should if for no other reason than Lee Daniels has gone through great pains to make a black film for white people. Shout out to the one Random Evil White Guy in a bowling shirt
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I lost it at that...LOL!
Thank you for this review. I've been kind of on the fence about wanting to see this at all. I'd vaguely heard the story of this 8-president serving black butler somewhere else long before I heard of this film. But when I saw how hard they were pimping the cast (including Kravitz in the spotlighted actors, about whom I totally agree with your wooden boy assessment), I stopped looking into what it could possibly even be about.
Looks like it's going to win the box office this weekend though. I'm not sure what that means about the strength of any future movies' writing, especially if people are generous and forgiving of some of what you've pointed out here. For me, unless someone else is paying, I'll look forward to a night at home with this when it hits the Redbox around New Year's.
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