as a showcase for Murray, and as an advert for drugs, its persuasive stuff.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2022

Hunter S. Thompson earned an "executive consultant" credit on the picture, but, like others involved with the troubled production, he was ultimately disgusted and disappointed with the end result.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 16, 2021

While [Bill] Murray is more than likable in his role, he isn't able to capture the larger-than-life figure he set out to inhabit.

| Oct 18, 2017

An interesting and savage little piece.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2015

A sporadically amusing, frustratingly scattershot look at Thompson's life and times.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 21, 2015

The movie is about manic energy, but you can feel everyone straining just to get the next shot on the screen.

| Jul 21, 2015

The trouble is that the movie can't decide if it's trying for laughs or social statement.

| Jul 21, 2015

The film invites us to chuckle along with Thompson as he indulges in a series of objectionalble episodes.

| Jul 21, 2015

Where the Buffalo Roam is a shambling stiff, destined to tarnish the reputations of everyone responsible for it.

| Jul 21, 2015

[Where the Buffalo Roam] features a number of amusing set-pieces of irreverent lunacy, but lack of serious substance renders film too frivolous and detached from reality.

| Mar 26, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2007

It's just a ramshackle package of bizarre anecdotes, some only marginally connected to Thompson's writings.

| Original Score: D | Apr 9, 2007

Laughs aplenty for people who use drugs as a pose, but most will be left wondering if half a pint of Bass doesn't qualify as a revolutionary action.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Mr. Murray is clever whenever he is audible... But the story rambles desperately, and there are times when the screenplay is barely there. Mr. Thompson's only identifiable quality soon becomes facetiousness, and it wears terribly thin.

| Jan 15, 2005

This is the kind of bad movie that's almost worth seeing. But there are large things wrong with Where the Buffalo Roam.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 4, 2004

Finds no cinematic equivalent for Thompson's outrageous language; the material seems strangely meek.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 8, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2003

The two charismatic leads prevent this from failing entirely, but the tone is shallow and insincere, largely because Linson wants to do what Thompson never would, which is to please all of the people all of the time.

| May 24, 2003