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Memento
Newmarket Capital Group
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for violence, language and some drug content
Starring
Guy Pearce,
Carrie-Anne Moss,
Joe Pantoliano,
Mark Boone Junior,
Stephen Tobolowsky,
and
Harriet Sansom Harris
Dismissed by the police, Leonard Shelby (Pearce) is obsessed with pursuing vengeance for the rape and murder of his wife. The difficulty of his quest is compounded by his rare, untreatable form of memory loss.
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Christopher Nolan
Jonathan Nolan (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Christopher Nolan
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 4, 2001
Video: September 4, 2001
Theatrical: March 16, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
120 minutes, B/W / Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Christopher Nolan's screenplay received Oscar, Golden Globe, AFI and Spirit Award nominations in 2001-02. Named Best Picture of 2001 by the Toronto Film Critics Association and the Online Film Critics Society (tie with Mulholland Drive).
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100
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
A delicious one-time treat.
100
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Pearce, who's in every scene except the Sammy flashbacks, dominates the picture through his feral performance.
100
Newsweek
Jeff Giles
A gripping, utterly unexpected noir, glinting with bits of poetry and a hard, deadpan humor.
100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Memento, which may be the ultimate existential thriller, has a spooky repetitive urgency that takes on the clarity of a dream.
100
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
One of the most original and ultimately confounding mind games to reach the screen since "The Usual Suspects."
91
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A hard and bright and tough film in all the best ways.
90
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Enthralling or infuriating.
90
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Deconstructs time and space with Einstein-caliber dexterity in the service of a delectably disturbing tale of revenge.
90
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A provocatively structured and thrillingly executed film noir, an intricate, inventive use of cinema's possibilities that pushes what can be done on screen in an unusual direction.
90
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Operates in an orbit somewhere between Oliver Sacks and Lewis Carroll. I can't remember when a movie has seemed so clever, strangely affecting and slyly funny at the very same time.
90
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The video stores are filled with examples of retro-noir and neo-noir, but Christopher Nolan's audacious timebender is something else. Call it meta-noir.
90
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
A brilliant feat of rug-pulling, sure to delight fans of movies like "The Usual Suspects" and "Pi."
90
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
You're exhilarated from beginning to end.
90
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Unforgettable, especially in Pearce's startling performance.
90
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Like the best filmmakers at Sundance 2001, Nolan leaps into the wild blue and dares us to leap with him. Go for it.
88
USA Today
Mike Clark
Has the unanticipated craft and artfully ambiguous appeal of last year's "Croupier," a movie whose art-house word-of-mouth success could be duplicated here.
88
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
This demanding puzzle is not for the "Chocolat" crowd, but those who stay with it will experience perhaps the most dazzling film released so far this year - even though a second viewing is virtually mandatory.
88
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The most disorienting and trippiest data-retrieval caper in years.
88
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
A puzzle movie in which the puzzle is actually worth the time and effort to solve.
88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Terrifically satisfying film.
80
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
If nothing else, Memento is a savvy comment on the queasy uncertainties of the postmodern condition, in which history goes no further back than yesterday's news, and knowledge is supplanted by "information" from a tumult of spin-controlled, unreliable narrators.
80
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Nolan's engrossing, backwards-ticking noir will run you so thoroughly in circles that you'll need to see it at least twice for maximum enjoyment.
80
Film.com
Peter Brunette
Despite the first-rate acting, the narrative is the star of this show, so much so that you feel yourself occasionally losing interest in the travails of the characters. Instead, you hang on every word and every tiny object, every cut and bruise in the frame, looking for clues that will help you make sense of what's going on.
80
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Nolan sustains an arty note of existential dread that probably will work better for noir-steeped film critics and overserious philosophy grad students than for general audiences, but he brings off a few brisk bravura moments.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A diabolical and absorbing experience.
75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
This unconventionally structured thriller moves at an energetic pace, spurred by a string of clever variations on conventional film narrative.
75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Fiendishly tricky contraption.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Bound to be talked about, debated and eviscerated far more than it's understood.
70
Time
Richard Schickel
The film takes this attempt to shatter narrative into little pieces about as far into incoherence as it can go; yet it is also full of odd, hypnotic menace.
70
Slate
David Edelstein
It's scary to have to puzzle out a plot line scene by scene -- scary and exhilarating, at least for an hour.
50
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Feels mostly like an audacious prank.
40
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Once you've seen it all once I bet you'll wish you were watching "Groundhog Day" -- again.
40
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Whenever Harris or Tobolowsky come on-screen they stop Memento dead in its clever tracks. You want to tell Nolan to stop all the po-mo deconstructive game playing and pay attention to the two human beings in front of him.
38
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The dramatic content in Memento is as blank as Leonard's post-traumatic mental state.
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