The Great Buck Howard

...contains the seeds of an unsentimental, darkly funny character study about an effete relic of a bygone show-biz era at war with a business and world that has passed him by.

No one else could have played Buck better than Malkovich. I love this guy.

If Great Buck Howard is formulaic and only mildly funny, however, Malkovich is nonetheless magnificent...

It sidesteps ultra-saccharine territory, emerging as sweetly nostalgic and gently satiric, if lightweight, entertainment.

...the humor is sharp and self-aware, the celebrity cameos are done right...