Remember Me

Austin Chronicle Kimberley 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.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger 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.

San Francisco Chronicle Amy 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.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

The scenes between Pattinson and de Ravin exude genuine charm.

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

Overwritten and overcooked, Remember Me still manages a few explosive sequences between Pattinson and Pierce Brosnan.

USA Today Claudia Puig

Overall, it's a gently bittersweet and affecting portrait.

Miami Herald Rene 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.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Charged up with stormy melodrama.

Boxoffice Magazine Pete 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.

Empire Ian Nathan

So the boy can act -- this is the best thing he’s done.

Time Mary 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."

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.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

There's more contrived melodrama in these two hours than romance fans could reasonably hope for.

Variety Todd McCarthy

The modestly scaled film delivers some moving and affecting moments amid a preponderance of scenes of frequently annoying people behaving badly.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

The dialogue can drive you crazy with its self-consciousness.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe 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.

Los Angeles Times Betsy 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.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott 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.

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

In attitude, if not aptitude, Robert Pattinson in Remember Me comes across like a latter-day James Dean.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa 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.

Chicago Reader Andrea 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.

Village Voice Nick 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.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Hoping for a little emotional manipulation with your popcorn? Look no further.

The New York Times Manohla 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.

New York Post Kyle 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.

Orlando Sentinel Roger 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.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

The brooding RPatz doesn’t bite. But his movie does.

Time Out New York Keith Uhlich

Bless you, R.Patz & Co., because this gloriously steaming pile is officially in the bad-movies-we-love pantheon.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

The movie crassly repurposes tragedy to excuse its cliches.