76
Metascore
31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternIt keeps you fascinated, even enthralled; elicits astonishment, even wonderment, and makes you grateful for the chance to meet someone remarkable.
- 80Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfThis film's effectively wrought communion between once-spooked man and animal is more than enough for any entertainment. It rides easily into your heart.
- 70Boxoffice MagazineRay GreeneBoxoffice MagazineRay GreeneWhat makes this movie truly special is that the source of Buck's uncanny gift is actually an acute childhood sorrow.
- A quietly captivating portrait of an unlikely character, Buck is as modest as its subject and wins viewers over just as easily.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceMeehl finds the real story in Brannaman's fractured past as a child celebrity trick-roper who, along with his older brother, Smokie, was systematically abused by his alcoholic father.
- 63Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreTaken on its own merits, this profile of "Buck" Brannaman is a pleasant and touching but somewhat superficial insight to the man and his methods.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanEven if we can't live his cowboy life, Buck Brannaman's world is well worth visiting.
- 38Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerLife lessons abound in Buck, most of them tied to endlessly reiterated comparisons between man and horse.