Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
To me, the Great Men Who Wrote Epic Poetry But Were Otherwise Intolerable trope leaves much to be desired.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
From the get-go, Set Fire feels movieland-hokey, and more dumb than the people in it .

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
A haunting account of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' first tour of America in 1950, "Set Fire to the Stars" is at once curiously subdued and unnervingly unpredictable.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Its appreciation of Thomas' work remains superficial, while the polished filmmaking never quite finds its own poetry.

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : NPR
Stylistically assured and tastefully appointed.

Name : Trevor Johnston / Alias : Time Out
This ambitious low-budget Welsh drama never quite finds a way to make its emotional drama matter much to the audience.

Name : Joe McGovern / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
The film wallows too much in its subject's glumness, but it comes alive whenever TV actor and co-writer Celyn Jones, whose only previous film credit is 2005's Lassie, plays Thomas as a big shaggy dog.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
A harrowing but tedious chronicle of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' time in America in the 1950s.

Name : Gary Goldstein / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Gorgeous, evocative and well performed .

Name : Neil Young / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A steady, austere treatment of a notoriously and riotously rambunctious subject, Set Fire to the Stars takes a non-incendiary, safe-hands approach to potentially combustible material.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
[A] watchable but thematically repetitive drama about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' arrival in America in 1950.

Name : Stephen Holden / Alias : New York Times
"Set Fire to the Stars" barely skims the surface of characters you wish had been given more dimension, but as a snapshot of postwar academia and its pretensions, it exerts a creepy fascination.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
It's left with little to do except point out that difficult artists can be hard on the people around them and to showcase some good poetry being read poorly.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Like any good purveyor of noir, Boyle, who wrote the film with Joel Clark and Michael Lerman, understands that identifying someone is only one endgame while the mystery of identity is naggingly, tragically endless.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
If you can hang on for close to two hours with almost no resolution, it's worth the ride.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
Man From Reno is hardly the equal of its inspirations, but it nonetheless makes for a pleasantly mellow, well-structured concoction.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Instead of building toward a climax, the film drifts off into nothingness, with a last scene that will send people shuffling out of the theater thinking, "Who cares?"

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
Writer-director Dave Boyle is best known for his offbeat rom-coms with San Francisco musician Goh Nakamura (Surrogate Valentine, Daylight Savings), and his gift for eccentric characters redeems this standard whodunit.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
The droll joke is that Asian double-crossers have it even easier than Vertigo's Kim Novak - Westerners don't even try to tell them apart.

Name : Stephen Holden / Alias : New York Times
"Man From Reno" fascinates. It invites you to go back, decipher its clues and discern a grand design, if there is one.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Time Out
A rare delight that's laced with melancholy and a suffocating sense of menace from its first scene straight through its shocking finale, Man From Reno is made special by the collisions between its characters.

Name : Adam Nayman / Alias : AV Club
Man From Reno doesn't rush its revelations, instead inviting the viewer to revel in its atmosphere of cozy foreboding-the same kind you get from a good airport paperback.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Boyle's mystery is both maddening in how much it withholds from the viewer trying to play along, and impressive for how little you end up caring about being kept in the dark.

Name : Sheri Linden / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Polished and ambitious, this crime drama puts a fresh bicultural spin on a retro-style mystery but doesn't quite sustain the suspense.