Chuck & Buck

What a surprising beautiful and tragic film that Mike White has created. I say Mike White instead of the director (who also did an exemplary job) because it was his penmanship that crafted this film into such a powerhouse. When... Full review

Chuck & Buck (2000) was one of those small US films that created a big buzz a few years back. I finally got round to seeing it on DVD and was quite impressed. It follows in quite a long history... Full review

An absolutely wonderful film, intriguing and revealing.Mike White is fantastic as the obsessed and yet wholly endearing Chuck. The film is beautifully shot, with great backlit childhood scenes, compete with sun flare of innocent years. A completely involving look at... Full review

The notable thing about Chuck & Buck is not just that it's a clever, well made movie with a fascinatingly odd central character, but that it doesn't go where you expect it to. At first Chuck & Buck seems like... Full review

Highly enjoyable, terrific look at the sometimes difficult transition between childhood and adulthood. Basically deals with the relationship between Chuck and Buck. 'Best' friends in childhood, but who have now taken completely different paths. Chuck is a successful record executive... Full review

This movie was neither worthy of loving or loathing, it just kinda 'was'. I found it more interesting trying to understand its writer than the characters. Had rented it on DVD, and after watching hoped that the commentary track with... Full review

I agree this movie had dark undertones. The look and feel was definitely low-budget but the story stood up well. It definitely made me feel uncomfortable at times---kinda like when you want to say to a character in film "No,... Full review

If you're losing faith in the creativity of screenwriters, "Chuck and Buck" should be an eye opener. This cleverly conceived film could be called a new twist on the theme of obsessive love, yet that would not really do it... Full review

This film is very well-directed, well-acted, and well-written. It just has one major flaw, and please don't read this if you don't want a spoiler: it portrays a stalker -- a sad-sack stalker we pity, but a stalker nonetheless --... Full review

This is one of the most boring, dull, and worthless movies I've ever seen. 96 minutes felt like 96 hours. I have never been so annoyed with characters of a film, nor have I ever prayed for a character to... Full review

this movie will seem weird and annoying and dumb Like good literature, the film forces viewers to think and makes them squirm. ... Full Review

Excellent Dialogue, editing and a superb performance by writer/lead actor Mike White. Very nicely directed, the funeral scene captures the delicate interplay of contradictory emotions. ... Full Review

It is a very good movie, but not the type of film you walk away from with uncontainable excitement. When Chuck dutifully returns to town to attend the funeral of Buck's mom, it becomes clear to him that Buck is nursing more than a harmless crush on his former pal. ... Full Review

Thanks to Ontiveros maternal presence and Whites remarkable performance, Chuck&Buck deftly avoids any charges of bad taste, emerging as a touching, offbeat fable with enough sly humour to excuse its climactic wallow in sentimentality. But second-time director Miguel Arteta neatly steers the action into more reflective, redemptive territory. ... Full Review

Chuck & Buck is pregnant with potential for disaster and hold-your-breath moments. That's the message in Mike White's script for Chuck & Buck, a strange little movie that puts a refreshing new spin on the stalker genre. ... Full Review

I might have been a little harsh in assessing the late former MPAA head Jack Valenti's legacy a couple of postings ago, but at least I didn't accuse him of being responsible for the Virginia Tech shootings. ... Full Article

Things like these keep Mr. and Mrs. Smith from being the very good film it could have been. Still, Pitt and Jolie have chemistry to burn, and the film hits more often than it misses. ... Full Article

Forget What Lies Beneath or the other jack-in-the-box thrillers of the summer. Chuck & Buck is a genuinely scary movie. Let's say your developmentally arrested childhood friend, the one you played homosexual games with when you were 11, suddenly returns... ... Full Article

SO DIRECTOR MIQUEL ARTETA made Chuck & Buck with a digital camera, and Chris Weitz (Chuck) is a pretty bad actor.But regardless of a little technical roughness, this film has a thematic center of solid gold. ... Full Article

ART CASE study, part metaphor, all bidding for your own Kinsey-scale reading, Mike White and Miguel Arteta's "Chuck and Buck" is a thumb-sucking entry in the "I don't wanna grow up" sweepstakes. The film comes on like an "After School ... Full Article

Friday July 14, 2000 Watching "Chuck & Buck" is like watching a tightrope walker: One slip-up and the film would surely plummet into incredibility or sheer tastelessness. ... Full Article