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Buzzard

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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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Critics Consensus

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 03/12/2015
4/4
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. Go to Full Review
Stephen Holden New York Times 03/06/2015
With its casual deadpan attitude, Buzzard offers a nightmare portrait of arrested development and anomie for the age of inequality. Go to Full Review
Richard Brody The New Yorker 03/06/2015
Potrykus's puckishly outrageous visions are short on insight, but they pack an enduring hallucinatory power. Go to Full Review
Callum Forbes Battle Royale With Cheese 02/13/2020
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. Go to Full Review
Pat Padua Spectrum Culture 08/28/2018
3.5/5
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. Go to Full Review
Jorge (JJ) Negrete Butaca Ancha 11/27/2017
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] Go to Full Review
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06/06/2024 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. See more Alec B 12/13/2023 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. See more Jeffrey P 01/24/2022 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. See more 06/05/2020 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 See more 04/23/2020 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 See more Nefasto R @Nefasto 01/15/2020 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. See more 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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