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Romantic drama about a young man and woman in New York, both traumatized by loss, who find one another and fall in love. Cast:Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper, Lena Olin, Pierce BrosnanDirector:Allen CoulterRelease Date:March 12, 2010DVD Release:June 22, 2010From:Summit EntertainmentRating:PG-13Length:1 hr 53 min
Remember Me played to weak reviews. Reviews were mixed. • Moira Macdonald wrote in the Seattle Times, "...feels like high-class teen melodrama, a movie with high ambitions but low impact." • And Amy Biancolli wrote in the Houston Chronicle, "...a good film - a small, dense chamber study of unhappy people looking for hope in the darkness, often literally.... Pattinson smiles. Yes! We get to see his teeth!" More Reviews Below...
Remember Me Positive Reviews (40 Reviews, reviews below)
Mary Pols, Time: MODERATE "...follows a familiar formula... manages to avoid gagging us with a spoon largely because Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin are so lovely together."(See all of Mary Pols's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 773 words, 03/12/10
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: MODERATE(cg) "Pattinson may be on leave from the narcotic melodrama of 'Twilight,' but he's still in full-on brooding mode.... he pours it on thickly and self-consciously."(See all of Jake Coyle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 585 words, 03/11/10
Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: MODERATE(cg) "...allows Pattinson to show broad emotional range. But the script is rife with clichés, and the sex is so artily lit it seems direct from cable."(See all of Thelma Adams's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 88 words, 03/11/10
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: WEAK(cg) "...a shameless contraption... a movie with all the hyperventilating hysteria of a 1960s teen-tragedy pop song and all the disposability, too."(See all of Lisa Schwarzbaum's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 370 words, 03/12/10
Claudia Puig, USA Today: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...a touching love story... Elements of the story come off as contrived, with unlikely coincidences linking more realistic moments."(See all of Claudia Puig's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 387 words, 03/12/10
Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD(cg) "...a well-made movie. I cared about the characters.... Liberate them from the plot's destiny, which is an anvil around their necks, and you might have something."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 841 words, 03/11/10
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (12 Reviews)
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: WEAK "Robert Pattinson is a conceivably promising, certainly watchable actor in need of an immediate acting intervention.... a lugubrious romance cum family melodrama..."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 613 words, 03/12/10
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: POOR(cg) "There's no shame in exploring tragedy through art. But exploiting it to make your very ordinary movie feel more important? That's another story."(See all of Elizabeth Weitzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 255 words, 03/12/10
Kyle Smith, New York Post: POOR(cg) "The dullness of this writing (script by Will Fetters) is more than matched by the dull look achieved by director Allen Coulter..."(See all of Kyle Smith's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 503 words, 03/12/10
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE(cg) "...the more you wait for the biggest plot development of the last decade to reduce everybody's problems to a hill of beans, the more it starts to make you feel cheap."(See all of Michael Phillips's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 504 words, 03/12/10
Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: POOR(cg) "Lulls you to sleep for two hours, then drops a surprise ending on your head like a piano.... the film fails on nearly every count..."(See all of Rafer Guzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 316 words, 03/12/10
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD(cg) "...a well-made movie. I cared about the characters.... Liberate them from the plot's destiny, which is an anvil around their necks, and you might have something."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 841 words, 03/11/10
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...makes comic relief painful... this is DMV dull, the plot showing so little motion toward a discernable resolution that after a while you wonder if the movie will ever end."(See all of Nick Pinkerton's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 612 words, 03/10/10
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: MODERATE(cg) "Any movie that requires something this maudlin and exploitive to unblock the tear ducts prior to rolling the credits has failed in the intervening two hours or so..."(See all of Peter Howell's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 660 words, 03/12/10
Jennie Punter, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE(cg) "...director Allen Coulter ('Hollywoodland') never convincingly ignites the romance... gets bogged down by plot points that plod toward an event of devastating proportions."(See all of Jennie Punter's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 538 words, 03/12/10
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: POOR(cg) "...calculated to play explicitly to Pattinson's youngest fans, who won't have the frame of reference to understand why everyone else in the theatre is so angry."(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 189 words, 03/11/10
KEY CITIES (13 Reviews)
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: WEAK(cg) "After the first hint of what's coming, the foreshadowing becomes so distracting that, by the time the darn thing goes off, there's only a sense of relief."(See all of Michael O'Sullivan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 342 words, 03/12/10
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Like James Dean smoking and brooding through 'Rebel Without a Cause,' Robert Pattinson puffs and sulks - often, impressively, at the same time..."(See all of Steven Rea's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 413 words, 03/12/10
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: POOR(cg) "The 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."(See all of Roger Moore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 521 words, 03/12/10
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin cast off the ghosts of 'Twilight' and 'Lost' as New York City college students falling in love.... they are pretty darned charming."(See all of Colin Covert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 273 words, 03/12/10
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: POOR(cg) "...full of non-people, living non-lives. The angst on display is inversely proportional to its cause.... the movie crassly repurposes tragedy to excuse its cliches."(See all of Wesley Morris's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 581 words, 03/12/10
Stephen Whitty, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: VERY GOOD(cg) "Brosnan, who is having a very busy year, is fiercely effective as the withholding dad.... Pattinson's young, and older, fans? No need to worry at all."(See all of Stephen Whitty's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 452 words, 03/12/10
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE(cg) "Brooding student with daddy issues? Check. Precocious little sister? Check. Date with an adversary's loved one on a challenge from annoying roommate? Check."(See all of Joe Williams's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 330 words, 03/12/10
Tom Long, Detroit News: MODERATE(cg) "...a bit too stiff to every really catch fire, not so much predictable as obviously planned. As a result, it will likely be forgotten soon enough."(See all of Tom Long's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 339 words, 03/12/10
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Allen Coulter, a recurring producer and director on 'The Sopranos,' has surrounded Pattinson with a stable of actors strong enough to force him into his A-game."(See all of Rene Rodriguez's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 471 words, 03/12/10
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (6 Reviews)
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...makes comic relief painful... this is DMV dull, the plot showing so little motion toward a discernable resolution that after a while you wonder if the movie will ever end."(See all of Nick Pinkerton's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 612 words, 03/10/10
Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix: POOR(cg) "Pattinson nails the pretty-boy aura sure to please female fans, but he scotches the finer details... Worse, he exhibits little chemistry with 'Lost's' Emilie de Ravin..."(See all of Brett Michel's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 149 words, 03/11/10
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: POOR(cg) "...calculated to play explicitly to Pattinson's youngest fans, who won't have the frame of reference to understand why everyone else in the theatre is so angry."(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 189 words, 03/11/10
Tricia Olszewski, Washington City Paper: VERY GOOD "Edward Cullen has a personality!... one of those rare films that makes what could have come across as treacle and melodrama feel real."(See all of Tricia Olszewski's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 641 words, 03/11/10
HIGHBROW PRESS (2 Reviews)
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: WEAK "Robert Pattinson is a conceivably promising, certainly watchable actor in need of an immediate acting intervention.... a lugubrious romance cum family melodrama..."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 613 words, 03/12/10
Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety: FAIR "...the modestly scaled film delivers some moving and affecting moments amid a preponderance of scenes of frequently annoying people behaving badly."(See all of Todd McCarthy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 907 words, 03/08/10
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "...a smart, engaging drama... The scenes between Pattinson and de Ravin exude genuine charm.... They are likable without being saccharine."(See all of Kirk Honeycutt's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 714 words, 03/08/10
Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...mildly engaging, occasionally touching... There is good chemistry between Pattinson, who shows improvement as an actor, and Emilie de Ravin."(See all of Emanuel Levy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 893 words, 03/10/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: WEAK "Robert Pattinson is a conceivably promising, certainly watchable actor in need of an immediate acting intervention.... a lugubrious romance cum family melodrama..."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 613 words, 03/12/10
21.8 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Remember Me's reviews are separated by an average 21.8 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
Remember Me (40 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:Remember Me's reviews cover 84.5% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 18,768 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 469 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Remember Me Coverage, Volume & Length (40 Reviews, reviews below)
Reviews Broke 9.7 Hours Before Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Remember Me's reviews on average broke 9.7 hours before opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Remember Me's opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
Remember Me (40 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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