1. Unlike any movie I've seen before.
2. Chuck & Buck is deceptively spare, thoroughly smart storytelling with engaging performances.
3. Constructed with such candor and openness that we wonder why the mass movie audience still cheers on the endless escapism of the Hollywood studios.
4. A superb performance by writer/lead actor Mike White.
5. It constantly defies expectations.
6. Director Miguel Arteta escapes the sophomore slump.
7. It is about someone who is desperate to find someone to love him, more than it is about homosexuality.
8. A remarkable and original achievement.
9. [The performances] are entirely watchable.
10. When is Hollywood going to realize that stalking is not a funny subject for a movie and that stalkers themselves are certainly not endearing enough to make them the focus of a film?
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
Poignant, unsettling.