| 100 |
Entertainment Weekly
The most resonant and haunting movie I've seen this year.
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| 100 |
Rolling Stone
One of the year's best and most provocative films.
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| 100 |
Film.com
One of the best films of the year. Queer in every sense of the word, it's poignant, laugh-out-loud funny and thoroughly provocative.
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| 100 |
Chicago Reader
Possibly the most daring and honest drama about sexuality I've ever seen.
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| 100 |
Boston Globe
It's all we ask of a film but almost never get, as it first makes us squirm, then makes us cheer.
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| 90 |
Slate
Might be the most perversely agreeable stalker picture ever made.
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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
The kind of movie that gets under your skin and takes root.
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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
You wouldn't think the darn thing would have such lingering power.
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| 83 |
Portland Oregonian
For a picture about a stalker, Chuck and Buck is rather sweet, funny and winning.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
Succeeds because it turns out not to be the movie it might so easily have been.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
Strange, intense and moving -- one of the few truly grown-up movies you're likely to see this year.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
Had this idea been pursued to its conclusion instead of the pat, wishfully ready-for-TV ending we're fed, the movie would be a standout.
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| 80 |
Village Voice
Manages to be not only consistently droll but cumulatively poignant and even scary.
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| 75 |
Charlotte Observer
Chuck and Buck: A fungus among us.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
An oddity, but a remarkably intriguing and original one, and in Buck ... it also has the most unforgettable movie character of the year.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
A reverse male-bonding tale unlike anything you've ever seen. And it's not the easiest good movie to sit through.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A fascinating study of behavior that violates the rules.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
Comes on like an "After School Special'' psychodrama that's been taken off its medication.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It becomes stronger and more honest than most character studies on film.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
The acting is excellent.
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| 70 |
Dallas Observer
Arteta and White manage to bring off both the comedy and the tenderness in this tale of a jilted friend who sticks to his passions like chewing gum on a shoe.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
The "Citizen Kane" of twisted-geek movies.
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| 70 |
Mr. Showbiz
Despite Arteta's best efforts, I eventually stopped caring about their bond because Chuck's character is conceived as such a two-dimensional yuppie.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
A provocative and uncomfortable comedy.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Almost too creepy to be poignant, and generally funny only in an uncomfortable, squirm-in-your seat way.
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| 63 |
USA Today
Its premise is so promising that you long for more than Arteta's low-key approach can deliver.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Arteta wrings some laughs from their bizarre (and more than a little frightening situation), but they're uncomfortable laughs, emotional protection from the freak show.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
(Arteta's) yanked an eerily accomplished performance out of his lead actor.
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| 30 |
Time
Crude and inept.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
Unlike other movies about unpleasant characters, "In the Company of Men," for example, Chuck & Buck doesn't have that sharp observational edge.
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