Memento (2000)
Battling with incessant memory loss, a man juggles searching for his wife's murderer.
30 May 1951, Dallas, Texas, USA
9 August 1970, Chicago, Illinois, USA
12 September 1951, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
21 August 1967, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
7 July 1968, New York City, New York, USA
15 May 1961, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
17 March 1955, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
8 January 1955, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
26 November 1948, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
5 October 1967, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
March 26, 2014
The three leads are excellent, but it's the masterful execution of an almost-too-clever-for-its-own-good concept which really makes this the most delicious kind of food for the mind.
March 26, 2014
This terrific movie, about one man's quest for vengeance, does everything a thriller is supposed to do: intrigue, involve and keep you guessing.
March 26, 2014
The young British writer and director Christopher Nolan, who has every intention of putting us through the mill, doubles his fun by running the whole story backward.
March 26, 2014
This is the kind of movie that gas-bag instructors use to illustrate the concept that one man's reality is another's fiction. But it's puny stuff compared to Kurosawa's Rashomon.
March 26, 2014
You have to pay close attention to Memento, the most original thriller to come along in years -- and one of the best.
March 26, 2014
Writer-director Christopher Nolan's second film is one of the most original and ultimately confounding mind games to reach the screen since The Usual Suspects.
March 26, 2014
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.
March 26, 2014
The astonishing payoff takes the film to another level entirely, unleashing a battery of existential questions that shed new light on everything that precedes it.
March 26, 2014
Pearce's central performance is as compelling as the film's premise and Nolan's execution of it. In Pearce's hands, Leonard is a time bomb with a short fuse.
January 02, 2013
treats the audience with respect without being overly pretentious
March 26, 2014
I can't remember when a movie has seemed so clever, strangely affecting and slyly funny at the very same time.
March 26, 2014
The mystery requires a lot of concentration, but the stunning final scene is ample reward. Not just an indulgence, the ingenious structure makes the point that memory, although unreliable, is what we depend upon for our sense of reality.
