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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Gruesome as it may sound, Butchers is a likeable, well-made film and a genuine comedy. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: While it's got a refreshingly dry, nasty tone, the film is never quite as funny as it needs to be. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Neither funny nor outrageous nor horrifying nor conventionally affecting. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's much ado about mutton. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: It is Jensen's acute sense of life's cruel absurdities that allows him to illuminate how pain and hilarity can continually flow into each other. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: You might not want to dine with this group, especially if they brought the meat. But it's OK to play with the knives a little. Read more
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: While the acting is top-notch, the real star of the film is the script. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Should have been either darker or funnier. Or both. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Nither high flying enough for the art house nor low down enough for the cult-video shelf. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The subject is so grim you may find that you've forgotten to laugh. Read more
Gunnar Rehlin, Variety: The two leads do emerge as kind of likable, in part thanks to Jensen's knack for balancing comedy and the macabre without ever stepping over the line. Read more
Benjamin Strong, Village Voice: Butchers has little appetite for the darkest questions at the heart of its conceit. Read more
Nelson Pressley, Washington Post: Jensen's tone is admirably dry, and the film offers its pleasures through small, writerly details. Read more