“Lee Daniels’ The Butler” is neither as good as it might have been nor as bad as survivors of “The Paperboy” may have feared. An ambitious and overdue attempt to create a Hollywood-style epic around ...

Forest Whitaker tends to talk about his work with a mystical flourish. Movie roles, he says, have helped him achieve transcendence, learn the value of quiet and appreciate fear.

Writing at the Washington Post, Stephen A. Crockett Jr. says that Lee Daniels’ ‘The Butler illustrates “the extremes of black masculinity,” with Forest Whitaker’s character working as a White House ...

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