Spinning Into Butter Critic Reviews
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Though the movie trails off unsatisfyingly, it raises intriguing and candid, if unanswerable, questions about race relations and political correctness.Read the full review
In style and content, Sarah Jessica Parker starrer is the kind of earnest, talky, modestly scaled social-issue pic that seems predestined for the smallscreen.Read the full review
Despite the film's haphazard choices and aversion to subtlety, Parker and Williamson come off as appealing sparring partners.Read the full review
Despite all the hyperventilating, the movie fails to consider what these crimes mean when, say, the residents of the White House happen to be black. The filmmakers recognize that identity politics are often a trap door. But it's one they're helpless to save themselves from falling through.Read the full review
A painfully miscast Parker nervously flips her hair and waves her hands, sitcom-style, as a do-gooding dean of students.Read the full review
What seemed sharp and pointed onstage comes across pedantically in the film, which treats its subject with a clumsy heavy-handedness.Read the full review
Less a movie than an essay.Read the full review
The movie suffers most of all from a feeling of creeping irrelevance, as if it's being delivered well after its sell-by date.Read the full review
