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(1 - 16) of 16 OFCS Rating: 69% Fresh Page   1   4/5 "we feel the measured take of a life abruptly re-envisioned by its own participant, before the chalkboard dust even settles on the floor."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin 4/5 "Doug's story is endlessly fascinating, the sort of thing that leaves you thinking about it for days."   DVDTalk.com   David Cornelius B "I found this unsettling story to be gripping."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz "There's a discomforting coldness in the film's almost clinical analysis and consequent distancing of subject from audience."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit B+ "Paints an absorbing, even haunting picture of one life wiped away and a new one begun."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B "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."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek C "Suffers under a cloud of nostalgia and emotionality that turns the film's investigation into a fuzzy meditation on existence and memory."   Modern Fabulousity   Gabriel Shanks 3/4 "Rupert Murray's account represents fascinating viewing, and the richness of the subject matter more than makes up for the crudeness of some of the visual elements."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/5 "Strangely for a film made by a friend, a detached and tentative point of view prevails."   Film-Forward.com   Kent Turner 2/4 "The greatest mystery surrounding Rupert Murray's impressionistic documentary about a man who's lost his memory is neither whether it's real or an elaborate put-on (as persistent rumors suggest) but why it's so fundamentally unaffecting."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "[I]f the tale of Doug Bruce -- who woke up on a New York City subway train one day in 2003 and had no idea who he was, or where he was -- is not true, someone would have invented it anyway. It's that... pertinent."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson B+ "Not just the story of Doug's journey to finding himself but a meditation on the nature of identity, memory, and connection."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 3/4 "A first-person documentary portrait not of rediscovery but of wholesale reinvention."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 3.5/5 "By focussing on one story, this documentary about memory and identity is both gripping and provocative. It's inventively shot and edited, and the central story is fascinating. But it feels more like a TV doc than a feature film."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B+ "The nature vs. nurture debate may never have a more intriguing piece of data to work with than Rupert Murray's hallucinogenic documentary."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 5/10 "A successful stock broker forgets it all and becomes a film maker. But not a very good one."   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson  (1 - 16) of 16 OFCS Rating: 69% Fresh Page   1