Buzzard is a weird one, that I think fans of film, particularly of obscure film can enjoy. No, it won't entertain your Fast and Furious fans and the like.

| Feb 13, 2020

Coming of age movies are generally about finding your voice, but this film of troubled youth is a terrifying variation: it's about losing yourself. I didn't enjoy watching Buzzard, but I admire it as a character study of a tragic a--hole.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 28, 2018

The leisure culture presented by [director Joel] Potrykus is endemic and responds to radical changes in social and labor paradigms, not only in the United States, but in the world... [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 27, 2017

Lacking a third act, Buzzard is less of a complete story than a slow-motion car crash, but then again, there are few things more fascinating than car crashes.

| Aug 24, 2017

A truly indie American comedy that will entertain you with its constant twists. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2016

Marty seems intended to exemplify modern American discontent, but a slacker hero is false to this political moment of digital entrepreneurs. His immature "rebellion" patronizes the very audience...that the young adult Marty resembles.

| Jun 28, 2016

Buzzard, written, directed and edited by Joel Potrykus, who plays Marty's work friend Derek, is a comedy that grows less funny by the scam, deepening desperation and eruption of white-hot anger.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 28, 2016

One of the most exciting pictures in contemporary American cinema.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 2, 2016

Bleak grungy slacker indie.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 5, 2016

Creepy character study of annoying slacker who gets off busting strangers' stones.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 24, 2015

[Potrykus]shows indications of being the rare filmmaker capable of stirring up ideas about class in America without resorting to the usual drab, po-faced miserablism.

| Dec 7, 2015

The central character in this dark comedy about a man's descent into madness is so compelling that you can forgive him for being so creepy and disturbing.

| May 1, 2015

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.

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

...one of those laser-sharp character portraits with such an incisive bead on its central figure that you sit, transfixed, by his every move.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2015

Burge and Potrykus are the De Niro and Scorsese of stunted adolescence, collaborators who explore the petulance and violence of stymied young men.

| Mar 6, 2015

There's a special kind of ambition in a great slacker movie. The dark, weird and hilarious Buzzard is definitely a great slacker movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 6, 2015

It only takes a few minutes of watching Buzzard to suspect there's a stubbornly original filmmaker on the scene -- namely Michigan writer/director Joel Potrykus, whose second feature this is.

| Mar 6, 2015

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

| Mar 6, 2015

Indie filmmaker Joel Potrykus delivers a portrait of a have-not who is at once despicable, funny, sad and inimitable in Buzzard, a dark, deadpan comedy.

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

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

| Mar 6, 2015