50
New York Magazine (Vulture) by
Has an authentic rotgut flavor, but here's the question for the future: Will Gallo learn to criticize his own ideas or continue to pride himself on screwing up?
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
80
The New York Times by Elvis Mitchell
Cool, stark compositions and the occasional audacious visual trick give Buffalo '66 a memorable look even when its narrative enters the occasional uneventful stretch.
75
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
Gallo's script is quirky and filled with a number of hilariously strange comic moments.
30
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
For me the film creates more embarrassment than sympathy, but at least it's a kind of embarrassment that's instructive.
90
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Alternately satirical and romantic, full of pain and humor, Buffalo '66 is a winner.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey
By turns raw, naturalistic and indebted to John Cassavetes, both stylistically and thematically.
78
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
In the end, it's a love story after all, but a peculiarly Gallocentric one -- cheap, nasty, but salvageable nonetheless.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Plays like a collision between a lot of half-baked visual ideas and a deep and urgent need. That makes it interesting…and the film contains an astonishing performance by Christina Ricci, who seems to have been assigned a portion of the screen where she can do whatever she wants.
80
Gallo transcends the medium in a manner I only associate with David Lynch. It's brilliantly spooky.