With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
Plummer is, by far, the best thing about the film.
– Bill Goodykoontz,
Arizona Republic,
24 Mar 2016
fresh:
There is too much convenient coincidence and less tension than a payback drama needs, but the cast is as good as always.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
24 Mar 2016
rotten:
A shaky premise meets a shaky protagonist in "Remember."
– Soren Anderson,
Seattle Times,
31 Mar 2016
fresh:
There is no actor currently at work capable of embodying the complexity of this character like Plummer.
– Scott Marks,
San Diego Reader,
31 Mar 2016
rotten:
Atom Egoyan's bold but often ludicrous Remember plays a like a mash-up of The Terminator, Marathon Man and Memento, as filtered through the lens of an old Twilight Zone episode.