Like Potrykus, Burge shows great daring, his performance a high-wire act of ballistic anomie and genuine empathy; we may find Marty repugnant, but only because we fear ending up like him, a disillusioned hellion desperate for a way out.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 12, 2015

With its casual deadpan attitude, Buzzard offers a nightmare portrait of arrested development and anomie for the age of inequality.

Full Review | Mar 6, 2015

Potrykus's puckishly outrageous visions are short on insight, but they pack an enduring hallucinatory power.

Full Review | Mar 6, 2015

Burge is phenomenal here, giving a memorable, well-rounded performance. His take on Marty is not your typical cinematic slacker: all cool detachment and nave apathy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2015

Love it, hate it or tolerate it with reluctance, "Buzzard" has a ruthless clarity of vision, and breaks new ground in pushing character-based comedy right to the edge of profound discomfort.

Full Review | Mar 6, 2015

Tough to categorize, tougher to shrug off, "Buzzard" firmly places young indie filmmaker Joel Potrykus on the ones-to-watch list.

Full Review | Mar 5, 2015

Caught between Beavis and Butt-head and Andy Warhol.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 5, 2015

Even as a quiet pathos brews over time, "Buzzard" doesn't quite gel into compelling drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 5, 2015

Think Vampire's Kiss on a DIY scale, with motels and basement rec rooms in place of brownstones and nightclubs and a bladed Power Glove in place of plastic fangs. That's Buzzard in a nutshell.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Mar 5, 2015

Potrykus has something uncommonly pure in mind, filling his plot with a stream of Marty's poorly conceived rackets, occasional bursts of violence and a kind of nihilistic self-ruination that rings as loudly as a punk song

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2015

Potrykus never gets didactic about the class commentary in Buzzard, because Marty's funny/pathetic scams and simmering psychosis draw the attention away from it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2015

"Buzzard" is among the first great American satires of the 21st century, its scathing indictment of capitalism delivered as a prolonged, disorienting punchline.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Mar 4, 2015

Often very funny, the film is not a comedy ...

Full Review | Mar 3, 2015

Potrykus' deadpan script finds new themes in American capitalism and an imaginative way of eating Bugles.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 31, 2014

The movie, though it is aggressively satirical and sometimes shocking, is in the end hauntingly sad.

Full Review | Mar 19, 2014

A vigorous and strangely compelling character study, a sustained burst of punk-rock ferocity, and one of the most original American films to emerge in some time.

Full Review | Mar 18, 2014

A chilly allegory whose antihero is both compelling and repulsive.

Full Review | Mar 17, 2014

This is a study of a man who's hard to like, harder to dismiss, and impossible to pigeonhole.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 15, 2014

As fascinating as it is off-putting.

Full Review | Mar 13, 2014