‘Butter’: Film Review. An obese teen hatches a macabre scheme to shut bullies up in 'Butter,' Paul A. Kaufman's high-school morality tale.

Review 'Butter' 2½ stars. Credits: Directed by Paul A. Kaufman, starring Alex Kersting, Mira Sorvino, McKaley Miller, Brian Van Holt, Mykelti Williamson, Jake Austin Walker, Jack Griffo, Annabeth ...

Butter, as the protagonist is known — after a classmate (Jake Austin Walker) forces him to eat a whole stick — seems to have everything he needs in life, except someone to listen to him.

"Butter" — a frequently funny comedy from director Jim Field Smith ("Episodes") and first-time screenwriter Jason Micallef — is essentially a sports film with a layer of cultural (and, by the ...

But Butter is a film more enamored of its premise than interested in making it work. Set in small-town Iowa, the movie centers on a butter-carving competition that pits 10-year-old Destiny (Yara ...

Movie Reviews - 'Butter' - No Contest: Everything's Better With It The world of competitive butter sculpting serves as the platform for a politically charged satire from Jim Field Smith.

A young sculptor goes head-to-head with Jennifer Garner in the movie “Butter,” but carving the dairy product is anything but child’s play. “There’s a lot of nail-bitin… ...