Autumn
Truly Indie | Release Date: June 9, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
10
Negative:
3

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Village VoiceMelissa Levine
Enamored of all things French and noir, American director Ra'up McGee has written a love letter to both. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Autumn is actually pretty damn good. It's a defiantly odd work, a movie-movie set more in the crime-film Paris of Jean-Pierre Melville or Jacques Becker or early Godard than in the real 21st century city. Read full review
60
Washington PostStephen Hunter
The film is visually mannered and full of posing and longueurs. But it is stylish, very French (despite its American origins) and diverting if well short of brilliant. Read full review
50
VarietyJoe Leydon
Francophile film buffs and obsessive deconstructionists might be amused, but less indulgent auds will find derivative pic artificial and mannered. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Elegantly stylized but emotionally strained. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
It's in French with French actors, but its film noir sensibilities have a filtered Hollywood vibe about them. In other words, it's pretty much a mess. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
The twists and reversals that pile up, stirred by greed, friendship and betrayal, fail to register any meaning, simply accumulating -- so that ultimately Autumn is as dry and lifeless as the leaves that fall to the ground in its opening images. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The film looks great, but there's nothing under the high-gloss veneer. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Although reasonably compelling to watch and featuring fine performances from its charismatic and attractive lead performers, it ultimately displays little reason for being other than to serve as a transatlantic cinematic calling card. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
With its quick fades and creamy lighting, Autumn is all about looking good. McGee may well have strong films in him, but this one feels pretentious and gassy. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
McGee has taken Hitchcock's idea of the MacGuffin to such an extreme that the plot becomes a set of nesting dolls with nothing at the center, but the players conjure up a smoky mood of existential sadness. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
The one bit of artsy business that McGee pulls off well is the recurring image of snapshots, serving as a kind of map to who these people were and who they're becoming. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
Autumn wants to do for Jean-Pierre Melville what "Reservoir Dogs" did for Hong Kong cinema, but this new film is a joyless exercise in film appreciation. Read full review
30
The New York TimesNathan Lee
As they scheme to secure a mysterious silver briefcase, secrets are revealed, agendas come to light and not a single plausible line of dialogue is uttered. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
For all the precision shooting, Autumn is a colossal misfire, a tedious film noir wannabe. It doesn't even qualify as film gris. Read full review
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