Share

Watch It

On DVD: Now | On Blu-ray: TBD
Watch it on iTunes Buy on Amazon

Unknown White Male Review

  • Release Date: Feb 24, 2006
  • Rated: drug references and brief strong language
  • Runtime: 1 hr. 28 min.
  • Genres: Documentary

Movies.com Critics

4.5

Dave White Profile

… goes beyond the Memento-ishness … Read full review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    65

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 60

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    The film as a whole has the gravitas of a really thoughtful rock video.

  • 67

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Unknown White Male is framed as a look at the mystery of identity, but there's a bizarre neutrality to the movie, since it makes Bruce's life just as detached and remote to us as it seems to him.

    Read Full Review

  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    An unexpectedly emotional, continually disconcerting film.

    Read Full Review

  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety Robert Koehler

    Bruce's efforts to retrace and recover his life after his memory loss contain all the drama and uncertainty of a fine psychological drama.

    Read Full Review

  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times Manohla Dargis

    Crammed with friendly, sympathetic talking heads and pretty images of a stunned-looking Mr. Bruce, then 35, relearning life (he remembers how to walk but forgot family and friends), the film comes up frustratingly short when it comes to the particulars.

    Read Full Review

  • 88

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    The real subject of the film is Douglas Bruce sitting on two years of memories and told there is a 95 percent chance that another 30 years may return to him. A lot of people don't want to know when they're going to die. Maybe they wouldn't want to be reborn, either.

    Read Full Review

  • See all Unknown White Male reviews at Metacritic.com

View MoreView Less

Fan Reviews provided by

Average Rating: 3.333
Read all reviews Write a review at Fandango
4

by Linda_Smiley_ LikeMovies

Read all Unknown White Male reviews at Fandango
Advertisement