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Buzzard

Play trailer Poster for Buzzard Released Mar 6, 2015 1h 37m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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A slacker working as an office temp makes extra money by stealing refund checks from his employer.
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Unsettling and bracingly original, Buzzard is a fascinating -- and often very funny -- plunge into lo-fi cinematic psychosis.

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Drew Hunt Chicago Reader 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. Rated: 4/4 Mar 12, 2015 Full Review Stephen Holden New York Times With its casual deadpan attitude, Buzzard offers a nightmare portrait of arrested development and anomie for the age of inequality. Mar 6, 2015 Full Review Richard Brody New Yorker Potrykus's puckishly outrageous visions are short on insight, but they pack an enduring hallucinatory power. Mar 6, 2015 Full Review Callum Forbes Battle Royale With Cheese 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 Full Review Pat Padua Spectrum Culture 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. Rated: 3.5/5 Aug 28, 2018 Full Review Jorge (JJ) Negrete Butaca Ancha 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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Todd Love indie films. This is a boring waste of nothing. Good performances by the two leads but all for nothing. What was the point?! Very frustrated. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 06/06/24 Full Review Alec B The movie distinguishes itself by focusing on a uniquely troubled character. More delusional than psychotic and less clever than scrappy, Marty proves to be one of the "great" losers to grace the screen in the past few years. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Starts out as sorta the basement dwelling, distant cousin of Office Space but becomes more of a cautionary tragic tale of a drifter with the moral of the entire story being - don't steal office supplies. Would have preferred a different ending but still a solid and amusing indie flick. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member This starts off fun enough. Burge is great throughout, but he isn't enough to carry the film once the flow of events gets a bit routine and less interesting. Some nice comedy bits early on, esp. the work scenes at the bank. Potrykus was very good as well as one of far too many Dereks out there who can't seem to grow up to full adulthood and move past sub-middle mgt. at best. The title is apt and Marty lives up to it. He's a scavenger of opportunity, as most all vultures are. Cashing the checks and returning office equipment he never bought, he preys on the innocent. Customer service is there to help you in easiest possible way, with under trained, under paid clerical workers. Marty also knows this, and how to take advantage. He preys on Derek for help, who just wants to be his friend. I did appreciate the ending. It's a clever image with the screens,which works on a couple of levels. As one of the Marty's divests itself from the screen, we see some alarm on the actual Marty's face in recognition that he's lost part of himself in a sense. Then he appears again in the screen, walking past as if just aimlessly drifting through life. Very indy. 2.8 stars Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Josh Burg definitely has a style . Loves making the slacker clerks style movies where most the movie is just back and forths between two losers spewing non sense and dumb ideas that would sound terrible if presented to anyone with any common sense . With all that in mind, I certainly don’t hate a slacker film 2.4 Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 04/24/20 Full Review nefasto r This strange indi film is a mixture of punk, nihilism and plain stupidity. It stars strong and fun, but in the second part runs out things to say, and a cute finale is not really enough to save it all. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A slacker working as an office temp makes extra money by stealing refund checks from his employer.
Director
Joel Potrykus
Producer
Michael Saunders, Ashley Young
Screenwriter
Joel Potrykus
Distributor
Oscilloscope Pictures
Production Co
Sob Noisse Movies
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 6, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 14, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$13.7K
Runtime
1h 37m
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