Brown's "Buffalo Common," a wisp of a film at 23 minutes, is a veritable smorgasbord of sorrow and a chronicle of the American Midwest as a no-man's-land of dying towns and hobbling industry. Documentary rarely strives for formal beauty, but Brown's film has the luster of real art... Brown's hauntingly beautiful film calls to mind Robert Frank, Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders. --Felicia Feaster, Creative Loafing, 2002