Fresh
If you can hang on for close to two hours with almost no resolution, it's worth the ride.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Man from Reno
The greatest mystery she's ever written. And it could be her last…
2014 · 1h 51m · Not Rated
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Dave Boyle
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Man from Reno
Overview
A mystery outside of San Francisco brings together small-town sheriff Paul Del Moral, Japanese author Aki Akahori, and a traveler from Reno who soon disappears, leaving behind his suitcase and a trail of questions.
Director and cast
- Dave Boyle Director
- Ayako Fujitani as Aki
- Pepe Serna as Paul Del Moral
- Kazuki Kitamura as Akira
- Hiroshi Watanabe as Hitoshi/Running Man
- Tetsuo Kuramochi as Shinsuke
- Elisha Skorman as Teresa Del Moral
- Masami Kosaka as Tatsuji Ono/The Photographer
- Rome Kanda as Kageyama
- Yasuyo Shiba as Junko
- Yuki Matsuzaki as Tsubasa
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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?"
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
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.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
"Man From Reno" fascinates. It invites you to go back, decipher its clues and discern a grand design, if there is one.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
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.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
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