A story you will always remember, but a film you will soon forget.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

Whether the story is true or not does have a bearing on how good you think it is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2008

I found this unsettling story to be gripping.

| Original Score: B | Nov 6, 2006

Doug's story is endlessly fascinating, the sort of thing that leaves you thinking about it for days.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2006

That the fugue-state victim is movie-star handsome doesn't hurt the appeal of the film at all, both from a commercial and empathetic viewpoint.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 18, 2006

Unknown White Male picks up where films like Memento and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind leave off, examining the larger implications and aftereffects of memory loss instead of primarily employing it (however effectively) as a plot device.

| Jul 13, 2006

It doesn't help Bruce's cause that he is seen in archive footage to have been a smug, arrogant fellow; it's tempting to imagine that his memory has abandoned him in exasperation. A case of amnesia as overdue self-discovery, perhaps?

| Jun 24, 2006

Given that this retrograde memory loss has cleansed Doug Bruce's perceptions and made him an altogether more open and emotional person, Unknown White Male suggests that amnesia could be the ultimate chicken soup for the soul.

| May 12, 2006

Essentially Nature vs. Nurture: The Movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 4, 2006

Amnesia has been a staple of movies from time immemorial, but few, if any, of them have cut to the bone the way this modest documentary does.

| Original Score: B | Apr 21, 2006

In the end, it fails to offer any insight into the philosophical question it poses.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 13, 2006

Another intriguing tale of retrograde memory loss.

| Original Score: B | Apr 11, 2006

A fascinating documentary, which traces the process by which its subject learns about his 'old' self, whilst adjusting to an invigorated everyday existence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2006

Paints an absorbing, even haunting picture of one life wiped away and a new one begun.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 7, 2006

Whether it's a real case captured by an incurious filmmaker, a hoax perpetrated on an incurious filmmaker or an audacious bit of Blair Witch fakery, the movie gets you thinking about the nature of identity and the power of memory.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 7, 2006

Even if Rupert Murray's film does turn out to be a hoax, there's no denying the ingenuity involved in its making.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2006

The whole movie feels sorta like a snow job.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Apr 6, 2006

Unknown White Male has moments you won't forget, appropriate praise for a documentary about amnesia.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 1, 2006

When it's at its best, Unknown White Male can be stirring and thought-provoking, but too often it's lax and complacent when what's called for is something more probing and investigative.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Never as enthralling as it seems like it should be.

Full Review | Mar 31, 2006