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Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Delightful and clever. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It's wonderfully refreshing. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A powerful film made with minimal means, it's a story of poor people on the fringes of society, done without sentimentality or condescension but with wicked humor. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: It is at once artful and unpretentious, sophisticated and completely accessible, sure of its own authority and generous toward characters and audience alike -- a movie whose intended public is the human race. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A compassionate and darkly funny shaggy-dog story. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Offers up a subversive comic sensibility, one that somehow combines Buster Keaton's deadpan stare with Frank Capra's tireless optimism and filters them both through a black-ice Finnish point of view. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Full of deadpan humor. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki's serious sense of social compassion doesn't get in the way of great dark jokes in The Man Without a Past. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: [Kaurismaki's] a humanist bearing witness to the human parade. To be part of that parade is to be touched by his perspective, and to have your world altered -- magically, fleetingly, memorably. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Wry, whimsical and sure of tone, dry in all of the right ways and without an ounce of condescension. Read more
Andrew Mann, L.A. Weekly: In vibrant color, accompanied by mutated Finnish rockabilly and possessed by Kaurismaki's trademark bleak hilarity, it includes all the deadpan delivery, heavy drinking and bad luck of his earlier films. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: 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. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: At the end of The Man Without a Past, I felt a deep but indefinable contentment. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: [Kaurismaki] trusts us to find the humor and the humanity that coexist in his world and in the process retains a purity of style and intent. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: This underclass fable is slight, finally, but its miserable/waggishly optimistic worldview leaves you feeling a little more alive. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: That rare thing: a movie that makes you feel good by sharing some of your pain. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Droll, reticent, flawlessly filmed fable of generosity. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: This may not be Kaurismaki's masterpiece, but it is a movie of sustained stylistic integrity -- and it has the power to make you laugh. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: A gentle, surprising little movie whose rewards lie in what its characters don't say as much as in what they do. Read more