Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
Writer-director Rodrigo Sepulveda suggests a personal explanation for her quest late in the game, but too late and too half-heartedly to rescue this morose Chilean drama from its own sanctimony.

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.