Don Kaye
Moviefone
Jul 3, 2026
8/10
Anchored by a fantastic cast, ‘Memory’ is a cinematic chamber piece that leaves one both haunted and moved.
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Juan Jose Cruz
Cine Premiere
Mar 7, 2025
3.5/5
Although it is at times flawed, Memory is a great vehicle for its protagonists to shine. [Full review in Spanish]
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James Croot
The Post NZ
Nov 30, 2024
4/5
It’s a tale filled with regrets and recriminations, but writer-direct Michel Franco cleverly only gradually reveals all the details, keeping the viewer guessing as to where our sympathies should lie.
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Leigh Paatsch
Herald Sun (Australia)
Nov 20, 2024
4/5
A shrewdly selective release of crucial information throughout the script makes Memory a genuinely unforgettable experience.
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Jim Schembri
jimschembri.com
Nov 15, 2024
1/5
The emerging cliche of the "trauma dump" gets more fuel in this dreary drama about an unlikely couple...an emotionally constipated dirge that is slow and increasingly dull.
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Simon Miraudo
Movie Squad (RTRFM 92.1)
Nov 15, 2024
4.5/5
A movie with a simply devastating and beautiful idea: you sometimes just need someone to remember for you.
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Cain Noble-Davies
FILMINK (Australia)
Nov 9, 2024
13.5/20
…. a sometimes-frustrating, sometimes-tender depiction of the ways that the human brain can work against itself.
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Julian Wood
FILMINK (Australia)
Oct 25, 2024
17/20
The film demands a certain patience but, if you meet it halfway, it is both human and moving.
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Daniel Allen
Loud and Clear Reviews
Jul 25, 2024
4/5
An intimate and softly provoking dementia drama with some brilliant performances, it is genuinely interesting to see how Memory plays out. It teases darker directions the narrative could take but remains restrained.
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Abe Friedtanzer
Cinema Daily US
Jul 23, 2024
B+
Watching Chastain and Sarsgaard share the screen is a worthwhile exercise...those who have seen similar progressions in friends and family matters to what both Sylvia and Saul go through will surely find their portrayals resonant.
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Jericho Tadeo
MovieWeb
Jul 12, 2024
Sarsgaard bares body and soul as Saul, presenting to us a broken man without ever once demanding pity.
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John Serba
Decider
Jul 8, 2024
Memory is weighty and intense and therefore not an easy watch, but its thematic richness and fully committed performances render it a more-than-worthy adult drama.
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Elsa Fernández-Santos
El Pais (Spain)
Jun 21, 2024
Memory is a melodrama that dresses pain with too many layers of misery, an excess of traumas that Franco confronts with a beautiful yet dark love story sustained by Jessica Chastain and, especially Peter Sarsgaard. [Full review in Spanish]
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Carlota Mosegui
Cinemanía (Spain)
Jun 20, 2024
4/5
Franco's best film with performances worthy of an Oscar. [Full review in Spanish]
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
AWFJ.org
Jun 18, 2024
Memory is a remarkably humane film that avoids any obvious missteps that would see it collapse into movie-of-the-week social issue melodrama terrain
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Andrea Zamora
Sensacine
Jun 17, 2024
3/5
Despite its melancholic tone, Memory also offers a glimmer of hope. But what really makes it memorable are Chastain and Sarsgaard's performances. [Full review in Spanish]
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Filipe Freitas
Always Good Movies
May 14, 2024
3.5/5
Assuring that his fine narrative development leads to a positively simplistic resolution, Franco directs the film with both elemental allure and haunting familiarity.
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Kevin Wight
The Wee Review
Mar 21, 2024
4
A challenging, painful, but ultimately hopeful drama of two people afflicted by a loss and a surfeit of memory.
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Steph Green
Empire Magazine
Mar 18, 2024
4/5
Chastain and Sarsgaard are a class act — their touching, tactile chemistry is the film’s triumph.
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Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Feb 29, 2024
4/5
Insinuating and bravely acted, Memory is plotted like a play: there are shades of Florian Zeller’s The Father, albeit with the dementia theme as only one side of the coin here.
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