Metacritic Movie Ratings
Unknown White Male Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 88

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger 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.

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• 70

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan

  An unexpectedly emotional, continually disconcerting film.

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• 70

  out of 100

  VarietyRobert 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.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla 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.

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• 67

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen 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.

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• 60

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

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

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