Buffaloed

Proof that Zoey Deutch can carry a film...

Buffaloed churns with barely-controlled chaos in its best sequences.

This low rent She-Wolf of Wall Street is not without its charms - it's hard not to find some room in one's heart for a film that works so hard to restore the word "jagoff" to popular usage.

Buffaloed is good before you even get to what Deutch is doing. She makes is great.

Thanks largely to the feisty Deutch, "Buffaloed" is a fun time, even if it's about everybody's least-favorite kind of phone call.

In 2017, Zoey Deutch managed to carry Flower, a brisk but slight comedy about an exuberant young hustler with Daddy issues. She does it again in Buffaloed, in which she plays pretty much the same character, but confronts a different social evil.

Buffalo’ed is far from a scathing take on capitalism but revealing in its attitudes, as it ultimately punishes an enterprising young woman for her unyielding determination.

A movie that, while certainly not endorsing the criminal activities of its characters, never judges them for it, and there’s something much more righteous about Peg fleecing fools out of their money rather than a Jordan Belfort doing the same.

Buffaloed is a fun flick that proves, once again, that Zoey Deutch is a force to be reckoned with.

It’s rare for a film to feature a female lead brimming with temerity that’s full of so much piss and vinegar you may be afraid she will spin off her own axis. Buffaloed has it here with Deutch, who gives a career-best performance.