Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Franz turn in fine performances and those looking for them to strut their stuff will find some of that stuff in this film, but Hoffman has explored this terrain more effectively and memorably elsewhere. The character Bobby is never fully integrated into the film, and is not well acted. The cinematography is occasionally superb and one has the sense that there is a very good film lurking here somewhere -- but where? I never found it.
Review of American Buffalo
