Critic consensus:Kaurismהki delivers another droll comedy full of his trademark humor.

Numbered reviews:1. Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki's serious sense of social compassion doesn't get in the way of great dark jokes in The Man Without a Past.
2. Kaurismaki is Finland's greatest filmmaker, and never has he more artfully balanced his patented blend of deadpan humor, low-key melodrama, and toe-tapping music.
3. An understated but weirdly grabbing portrait of a man who loses his memory after being mugged and cobbles together an alternative existence with minimal means.
4. Sublime, with a touch of the ridiculous.
5. Although this 2003 Oscar nominee didn't take the golden boy home (Nowhere in Africa got it instead), this is definitely a film with a great future in the art-house circuit.
6. An extraordinarily good-natured movie.
7. A surprisingly quirky and touching romantic comedy.
8. Hopeful about the ability for man to persevere in a capricious world.
9. Offers a surprisingly touching and simple story about human dignity in the most trying of circumstances.
10. [A] warm and utterly beguiling fable.


Critic consensus:Although the film isn't as bad as feared (it wasn't pre-screened for reviews), it's not that good, either. Most noticable flaws are the sappy romantic cliches and lack of chemistry between Gere and Ryder.

Numbered reviews:1. There's nothing magical about the romance in Autumn in New York, and nothing even very tragic about its love affair.
2. Autumn in New York is saddled with a sappy, silly script.
3. Ryder looks like she doesn't want to be anywhere near Gere, no less have him touch her.
4. A perfectly respectable weeper.
5. This love story never convincingly goes beyond the depth of two good-looking people falling in love based on their looks.
6. Hardly the all-stops-out tearjerker it strives to be.
7. A diaphanous daydream of clichés, predictable developments, strained romance, and frequently embarrassing dialogue.
8. The movie's biggest fatality is the lack of chemistry between the two stars. Even in their most amorous moments, they seem like a randy uncle and his sad-eyed niece.
9. A throwback to conventional soap-opera romance which would be fortunate to find an enthusiastic audience on afternoon TV.
10. Finally ... the melodrama does take over.


Critic consensus:Though decidedly one-sided, The Cove is an impeccably crafted, suspenseful expose of the covert slaughter of dolphins in Japan.

Numbered reviews:
1. I've seen hundreds of horror movies in my time, and I've never seen anything quite as disturbing as the final sequences of The Cove.
2. Staggeringly exposes the high-to-low complicity of many hands in the international captivity trade, though mostly it stands as a testament to one man's activist spirit and a reminder of how all social progress comes from the passion of the individual.
3. Tells you with its heart all you want to know about why it's necessary to free the dolphins from captivity and slaughter.
4. It turns out that wasn't a smile on Flipper's face.
5. [An] impassioned piece of agit-prop, which goes to great lengths to penetrate Taiji's tight security to expose this problem in gruesome detail.
6. A powerful, important and extremely well made documentary that demands to be seen.
7. An involving and persuasive film that remains frustratingly one-sided as it bandies about unsubstantiated accusations, fails to follow up on key issues and leaves you wanting to know much more.
8. Part-espionage thriller, part-documentary.
9. In this new, post-Michael Moore age of documentary filmmaking as lucrative big-screen fare, a documentary that educates without condescension, informs without bias and entertains without losing its focus is a valuable commodity.
10. If The Cove isn't in the running for next year's Best Doc Oscar, there's something terribly wrong with this world. Gripping exposé, harrowing horror-thriller and devastating agitprop, it takes us to "a little town with a big secret".