Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
Critic Reviews
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Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
You’ve heard of guerrilla warfare? Buffalo Soldiers is all about guerilla capitalism.
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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The film is filled with spot-on performances, by Harris, Glenn, Phoenix, and by Paquin, who has grown up after her debut in "The Piano" to become one of the most gifted actresses of her generation--particularly in tricky, emotion-straddling roles like this one.
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70
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Film Threat
The script’s extremely well written, the direction flawless, and the performances -- especially by the fantastic Joaquin Phoenix, gobsmacking.
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67
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
In some ways it suffers from the same unredemptive afflictions as Elwood and his gang: It's a bit flaccid and flabby and lumbers gracelessly along without self awareness or humanity.
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60
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Village Voice J. Hoberman
In its post-Vietnam cynicism, Buffalo Soldiers feels almost avant-garde.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
Ultimately, it's a cold, caustic film that doesn't take a strong point of view but seems to offer up its numerous set pieces.
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50
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L.A. Weekly Ella Taylor
As social satire, though, the movie is a nonstarter, completely lacking in the zany lunacy of "M*A*S*H" and "Dr. Strangelove," or the whacked savagery of "Catch-22."
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40
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The New York Times Dana Stevens
Sloppy when it should be incisive, indulgent when it should be astringent, and ultimately unsure of what it is mocking and in what spirit.
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40
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New York Magazine (Vulture) Peter Rainer
This is low-grade satire. The shocks to the system in Buffalo Soldiers are nothing more than cheap thrills.
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30
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
Suffers from melodramatic overkill.
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