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Autumn
Metascore
46 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 15
  3. Negative: 3 out of 15
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  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    70
    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.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Melissa Levine
    70
    Enamored of all things French and noir, American director Ra'up McGee has written a love letter to both.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    60
    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.
  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    50
    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.
  5. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    50
    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.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    50
    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.
  7. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    The film looks great, but there's nothing under the high-gloss veneer.
  8. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    50
    Elegantly stylized but emotionally strained.
  9. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Crust
    50
    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.
  10. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    50
    Francophile film buffs and obsessive deconstructionists might be amused, but less indulgent auds will find derivative pic artificial and mannered.
  11. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    50
    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.
  12. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    42
    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.
  13. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    38
    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.
  14. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Nathan Lee
    30
    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.
  15. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    25
    For all the precision shooting, Autumn is a colossal misfire, a tedious film noir wannabe. It doesn't even qualify as film gris.
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