Film Review – Lee Daniels’ The Butler

“Lee Daniels’ The Butler” is the official title of this picture due to
ridiculous studio tensions that forced distributor The Weinstein Company
to make a slight alteration to the label to prevent additional
retitling banality. Turns out, the Lee Daniels brand on the feature is
more appropriate than previously imagined, as “The Butler” is sopping
wet with his filmmaking DNA, forgoing a clean sense of history and
timing to slosh around numerous eras and interactions, almost forming a
narrative by accident. It could some extra baking time in an editing
suite, but the movie is undeniably passionate work, doing a commendable
job making sense out of the helmer’s scattershot approach to a highly
ordered life.
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