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Canada, Mexico, Germany · 2015
Rated R · 1h 34m
Director Atom Egoyan
Starring Christopher Plummer, Bruno Ganz, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Lieven
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Zev, an elderly Auschwitz survivor suffering from dementia, is sent by fellow survivor Max to hunt down Otto, the Nazi official responsible for the murder of their families, who fled to North America after the war. Zev journeys across the country to find and take revenge on Otto while battling his own memory problems.

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The Guardian by Benjamin Lee

The inept script... makes for a perfect bedfellow with Egoyan’s flat TV movie direction and an overwrought score that sounds like a drunk impression of Bernard Herrmann.

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The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney

There's little sense of personal investment from the director, but Egoyan does what he can to keep the story moving forward, without getting bogged down in its implausibilities, which are too many to count.

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Variety by Guy Lodge

Crafted in utilitarian fashion by Egoyan, Remember does little to earn the poignancy of Plummer’s stricken performance.

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The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

The pathos of this situation is clear, the stakes, which obviously involve genocide, justice and actual Nazis, are sky high and Plummer is completely extraordinary. So why on earth isn't Remember a better film?

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CineVue by John Bleasdale

The thoughtfulness of Plummer's performance is not matched by a script that forgets human logic in favour of narrative tricksiness that ultimately undermines the initially intriguing premise.

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New York Post by Lou Lumenick

Christopher Plummer confronts Nazi horrors again in Atom Egoyan’s preposterous thriller, which squanders a terrific performance by the Oscar-winning actor.

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The Telegraph by Robbie Collin

Egoyan, working from a script by first-time screenwriter Benjamin August, works hard to steer the premise away from crassness – and in Plummer, he’s blessed with a lead actor who can express Zev’s interior struggle with delicacy and dignified understatement.

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