If it sounds like something you'd hate, you're probably right. But for those who are interested in films about ideas -- and particularly ideas that challenge your perception of normalcy -- Chuck & Buck might be the only "must see" of the summer.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 27, 2023

A detailed and often moving work.

| Original Score: B | Sep 2, 2022

The best news about [the film's] unexpected second act is Lupe Ontiveros, who plays a pragmatic theater manager whom Buck recruits to helm his playwriting debut.

| Apr 5, 2022

This bizarre and wonderfully abstract film is not to be missed.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 13, 2019

The film is pretty negligible, pointless, almost an exercise.

| Apr 10, 2018

Chuck & Buck is a dark misfit of a movie that's sweet, scary, thought-provoking and off-putting all in one package. It's a bold, original achievement.

| Jan 18, 2018

Creepy, funny, yet surprisingly affecting, Miguel Arteta's darkly comic drama pulls off a remarkable balancing act.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 7, 2010

Skirts stalker cliches and grown-up-kid-in-a-man's-body caricatures.

| Feb 12, 2008

Do you like the clammy as opposed to the scary? Do you like dread rather than drama, anguish and emotional coagulation rather than screamfests?

| Feb 12, 2008

Chuck & Buck might be the most perversely agreeable stalker picture ever made.

Full Review | Feb 12, 2008

That Chuck & Buck holds attention despite -- or partly due to -- its murky, troubling central conceit can be credited to execution that's stealthy and low-key throughout.

Full Review | Feb 12, 2008

Possibly the most daring and honest drama about sexuality I've ever seen.

| Feb 12, 2008

Genuinely unsettling.

| Jun 24, 2006

Of all the films to premiere at Sundance 2000, there is one movie that best represented what indie film is supposed to be.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

All the people of Chuck & Buck feel very human.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 21, 2005

A genuinely scary movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 24, 2003

Chuck & Buck is a film which you can't quite get a fix on: it's a movie about child sex which is also as airy and sweetly likeable as anything you'll see this year.

Full Review | Dec 2, 2002

Thought-provoking jet-black comedy that may not be for all tastes, but is well-worth seeking out.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 30, 2002

This is a thoughtful, difficult film. See it if you are ready to be challenged.

| Oct 21, 2002

It's certain to make almost everyone in the audience squirm, either out of embarrassment for the characters or because the situation hits too close to home...

| Jun 15, 2002