Kip Mooney College Movie Review Aug 29, 2021 B+

A film you won't soon forget.

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Richard Crouse Richard Crouse Mar 4, 2021 4/5

The thrills come with the search, but Remember's main buzz comes from Plummer's heartfelt and assured performance as a man struggling to reconcile the past with the present.

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Joanne Laurier World Socialist Web Site Feb 26, 2021

The ability of Nazi criminals to hide their past from "their families" does indeed take center stage, but in an almost entirely gimmicky, contrived manner.

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Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Oct 8, 2020 2.5

Gimmicky and arguably exploitational, a lead performance from Christopher Plummer manages to make this problematic feature a bit more palatable than expected.

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 21, 2020 3.5/4.0

Weaves together a thoughtful story of family and loss into a more universal story of the impossibility of ever truly leaving the past behind.

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Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Aug 2, 2019

Imbalance is what makes Remember such an odd duck...What starts as a depressing portrait of old age, dementia and loss, quickly turns into a pulpy revenge story.

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Mae Abdulbaki Movies with Mae Sep 1, 2018 2/5

The laser focus on remaining a mystery and choosing not to involve itself in the depths of the character's emotional journey or the aftermath leaves a vacant hole in the film's story.

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M. Faust The Public (Buffalo) Oct 12, 2017

The time it gets where it's going, we're left with a film of surprising power.

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José Teodoro Cinema Scope Oct 12, 2017

A superfluous denouement aside, Remember is Egoyan's leanest, cleanest film in years...

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tt stern-enzi Cincinnati CityBeat Sep 12, 2017

By journey's conclusion, we bear the mark, too.

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Kathy Fennessy The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 18, 2017

After over a decade of more misses than hits, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan returns to the character-driven intrigues of his early career.

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Eleanor Ringel Cater Saporta Report (Atlanta) Jun 20, 2017

Remember becomes the sort of movie that transcends genre expectations.

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Alistair Ryder Film Inquiry Feb 18, 2017

Remember is a gloriously trashy thriller, turning a narrative that could have easily been prestige season awards-bait into pure nonsensical pulp.

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Brad Keefe Columbus Alive Dec 31, 2016 2.5/4

The great performance of Plummer isn't quite wasted, but it deserved better.

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Edmund Lee South China Morning Post Nov 16, 2016 3.5/5

This lurid and disorienting story of an old man out for revenge is a Memento-like narrative puzzle enhanced by the immense presence of Christopher Plummer.

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Jeff Simon Buffalo News Nov 15, 2016 3/4

It's not just a triumph for Canadian director Egoyan but for writer Benjamin August.

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Dwight Brown National Newspaper Publishers Association Nov 8, 2016

Once Remember begins to unfold, the astonishment of watching an elderly man, who is losing his memory minute-by-minute, become a one-man Nazi hunter is intoxicating.

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Kaori Shoji Japan Times Oct 26, 2016 3.5/5

Remember is a hard sell, but like Zev, in the end you reach a point of satisfaction and witness a job well done.

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Peter Calder New Zealand Herald Jul 20, 2016 2.5/5

The film's real thrills are to be found in the fragility and confusion of Plummer's performance. At 85, few actors find leading roles and he's the oldest actor to have won an Oscar (for Beginners); he deserved better than this.

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Sonny Bunch Washington Free Beacon Jul 14, 2016 3/4

Plummer himself is perfect for this role. There aren't too many others who could convincingly play a demented nonagenarian with such verve.

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