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Buffalo Soldiers (2003) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Buffalo Soldiers (2003) a score of 2.6955 out of 4

based on (176) reviews

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Excellent

(16)

Very Good

(111)

Good

(43)

Fair

(6)

Poor

(0)

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Ray Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) works as a supply clerk on an army base in Germany. With the Cold War coming to an end and the draft gone, the infantry is filled with high school dropouts and small-time criminals - all of them bored. Elwood has built...read the complete Buffalo Soldiers (2003) review at The Movie Chicks

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Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)

A good satire that had the untimely bad luck to be about a U.S. soldier who will do anything it takes to party, except fight for the right....read the complete Buffalo Soldiers (2003) review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)

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Salon (Stephanie Zacharek)

A pleasingly disreputable trifle....read the complete Buffalo Soldiers (2003) review at Salon (Stephanie Zacharek)

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The New Republic (Stanley Kauffmann)

The film's intent was presumably satirical in the vein of "Catch-22" or "M*A*S*H," but the satire is so weak, the action so devoid of comic perspective, that we are left with a naked gaggle of ugly episodes....read the complete Buffalo Soldiers (2003) review at The New Republic (Stanley Kauffmann)