Remember Me
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: March 12, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
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Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
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8
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10
Negative:
11
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Critic Reviews

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78
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
There is, quite simply, a rather refreshing ordinariness to Remember Me in the unflashy, knuckle-down attention it gives to character development and the building of plausible and involving family and friend dynamics. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleAmy Biancolli
Not a bad film. I'm going to stick my neck out and call it a good one - a small, dense chamber study of unhappy people looking for hope in the darkness, often literally. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A well-made movie. I cared about the characters. I felt for them. Liberate them from the plot's destiny, which is an anvil around their necks, and you might have something. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The scenes between Pattinson and de Ravin exude genuine charm. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Overwritten and overcooked, Remember Me still manages a few explosive sequences between Pattinson and Pierce Brosnan. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Coulter wants to explore the act of mourning as a theme, and how death sometimes reminds us that every minute of life should be savored. On that level, Remember Me certainly succeeds. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Charged up with stormy melodrama. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Overall, it's a gently bittersweet and affecting portrait. Read full review
60
EmpireIan Nathan
So the boy can act -- this is the best thing he’s done. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazinePete Hammond
For those looking for the rare romantic youth drama without vampyric overtones or other gimmicks, Remember Me should satisfy and it works as a much-needed change of pace for the talented Pattinson who remains one of the most watchable of our young stars. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie Punter
Remember Me could have been a decent family drama, especially considering its setting, but that was not to be. Too bad, because the romance is highly forgettable. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
There's more contrived melodrama in these two hours than romance fans could reasonably hope for. Read full review
50
TimeMary Pols
If I had a daughter of impressionable age, I'd rather have her weeping over this mildly tasteless romance than the nonsense of "Twilight." Read full review
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
The modestly scaled film delivers some moving and affecting moments amid a preponderance of scenes of frequently annoying people behaving badly. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
a horrific misstep in the branding of Robert Pattinson. The erstwhile teen vampire, who daringly portrayed gay surrealist Salvador Dalí in last year's "Little Ashes," lurches backward into a pile of romantic rubbish. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The dialogue can drive you crazy with its self-consciousness. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
Pattinson could have the makings of a brilliant career, something more than the hot streak he's got going as the "it" guy of the moment. The same problems plague the film, which is beautifully shot but its emotional potential unrealized. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
The major problem with Pattinson’s ascendancy to the Dean throne: His soulfulness is a pose, an effect achieved more by hair and makeup (and yes, genetics) than the scenes where he’s required to emote at high volume. Read full review
38
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
In attitude, if not aptitude, Robert Pattinson in Remember Me comes across like a latter-day James Dean. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
As a shameless contraption of ridiculously sad things befalling attractive people, the engorged romantic tragedy Remember Me stands tall between those towering monuments to teen-oriented cinematic misery, Love Story and Twilight. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
It’s hard to know what the director Allen Coulter could have done to improve Will Fetters’s absurdly contrived, yakky script about love and loss, largely set in the summer of 2001. But Mr. Coulter doesn’t help matters by infusing the movie with grave self-importance. Read full review
30
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Hoping for a little emotional manipulation with your popcorn? Look no further. Read full review
30
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
There's an insult-to-injury quality to a plain bad movie with a "seize the day" message (Remember Me's tagline: "Live in the Moments"), which heckles you with all the other things you should or could be doing while you're marking time waiting on the credits. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
Allen Coulter (Hollywoodland) directed this morose and sluggish drama, which gets more mileage from Pattinson's anguished profile than from Will Fetters's thunderously overwritten screenplay. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle Smith
The dullness of this writing is more than matched by the dull look achieved by director Allen Coulter, who appears to have shot the film through a piece of yard-sale Tupperware. Read full review
25
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
The film’s tone is all wrong, the pacing is dead and the veering between sex, sadness and sado-masochistic violence is enough to give you motion sickness. It’s a bad movie. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
The brooding RPatz doesn’t bite. But his movie does. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith Uhlich
Bless you, R.Patz & Co., because this gloriously steaming pile is officially in the bad-movies-we-love pantheon. Read full review
12
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The movie crassly repurposes tragedy to excuse its cliches. Read full review
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