Chuck & Buck

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

The most resonant and haunting movie I've seen this year.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

One of the year's best and most provocative films.

Film.com Ernest Hardy

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.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Possibly the most daring and honest drama about sexuality I've ever seen.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

It's all we ask of a film but almost never get, as it first makes us squirm, then makes us cheer.

Slate David Edelstein

Might be the most perversely agreeable stalker picture ever made.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

The kind of movie that gets under your skin and takes root.

Chicago Tribune Mark Caro

You wouldn't think the darn thing would have such lingering power.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

For a picture about a stalker, Chuck and Buck is rather sweet, funny and winning.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Succeeds because it turns out not to be the movie it might so easily have been.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

Strange, intense and moving -- one of the few truly grown-up movies you're likely to see this year.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

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.

Village Voice J. Hoberman

Manages to be not only consistently droll but cumulatively poignant and even scary.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Chuck and Buck: A fungus among us.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

An oddity, but a remarkably intriguing and original one, and in Buck ... it also has the most unforgettable movie character of the year.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

A reverse male-bonding tale unlike anything you've ever seen. And it's not the easiest good movie to sit through.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A fascinating study of behavior that violates the rules.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

Comes on like an "After School Special'' psychodrama that's been taken off its medication.

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

It becomes stronger and more honest than most character studies on film.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

The acting is excellent.

Dallas Observer Bill Gallo

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.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

The "Citizen Kane" of twisted-geek movies.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

Despite Arteta's best efforts, I eventually stopped caring about their bond because Chuck's character is conceived as such a two-dimensional yuppie.

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

A provocative and uncomfortable comedy.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

Almost too creepy to be poignant, and generally funny only in an uncomfortable, squirm-in-your seat way.

USA Today Mike Clark

Its premise is so promising that you long for more than Arteta's low-key approach can deliver.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

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.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

(Arteta's) yanked an eerily accomplished performance out of his lead actor.

Time Richard Schickel

Crude and inept.

Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday

Unlike other movies about unpleasant characters, "In the Company of Men," for example, Chuck & Buck doesn't have that sharp observational edge.