Mamet's strafing dialogue still hits its marks, but director Michael Corrente never manages to turn this into anything more than a static filmed play.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 11, 2015

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

Dustin Hoffman channels his Ratso Rizzo character from the 1969 Midnight Cowboy.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 1, 2010

Mesmerized by the trademark Mamet gutter poetry, Corrente directs unobtrusively and respectfully.

| Original Score: B | Jul 23, 2007

In this overly theatrical version, Hoffman gives a mediocre performance in a role that Al Pacino excelled with on stage. Failing to open up Mamet's play, confined to one locale--a junk store--the film is claustropobhic and dull, lacking emotional payoff

| Original Score: C | Feb 12, 2007

A colossal letdown that ends up running in place.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 23, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2005

A three-character, one-set chamber piece, pic lacks the bravura moments of the film version of the playwright's Glengarry Glen Ross

Full Review | Apr 29, 2005

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2005

My example of a great Back Shelf Beauty

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2004

There is little sense of tension, nor any dramatically sound resolution. American Buffalo seems to end rather abruptly - but not a moment too soon

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 12, 2002

You only get a hint of how great the source material is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 24, 2001

Because the film never really brings to life its inner secrets, it seems leisurely, and toward the end, it seems long.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000