Memory Reviews
Julian Wood FILMINK (Australia)
The film demands a certain patience but, if you meet it halfway, it is both human and moving.
Full Review | Original Score: 17/20 | Oct 25, 2024
Daniel Allen Loud and Clear Reviews
An intimate and softly provoking dementia drama with some brilliant performances, it is genuinely interesting to see how Memory plays out. It teases darker directions the narrative could take but remains restrained.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2024
Abe Friedtanzer Cinema Daily US
Watching Chastain and Sarsgaard share the screen is a worthwhile exercise...those who have seen similar progressions in friends and family matters to what both Sylvia and Saul go through will surely find their portrayals resonant.
Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 23, 2024
Jericho Tadeo MovieWeb
Sarsgaard bares body and soul as Saul, presenting to us a broken man without ever once demanding pity.
Full Review | Jul 12, 2024
John Serba Decider
Memory is weighty and intense and therefore not an easy watch, but its thematic richness and fully committed performances render it a more-than-worthy adult drama.
Full Review | Jul 8, 2024
Elsa Fernández-Santos El Pais (Spain)
Memory is a melodrama that dresses pain with too many layers of misery, an excess of traumas that Franco confronts with a beautiful yet dark love story sustained by Jessica Chastain and, especially Peter Sarsgaard. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Jun 21, 2024
Carlota Mosegui Cinemanía (Spain)
Franco's best film with performances worthy of an Oscar. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2024
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas AWFJ.org
Memory is a remarkably humane film that avoids any obvious missteps that would see it collapse into movie-of-the-week social issue melodrama terrain
Full Review | Jun 18, 2024
Andrea Zamora Sensacine
Despite its melancholic tone, Memory also offers a glimmer of hope. But what really makes it memorable are Chastain and Sarsgaard's performances. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2024
Filipe Freitas Always Good Movies
Assuring that his fine narrative development leads to a positively simplistic resolution, Franco directs the film with both elemental allure and haunting familiarity.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 14, 2024
Kevin Wight The Wee Review
A challenging, painful, but ultimately hopeful drama of two people afflicted by a loss and a surfeit of memory.
Full Review | Original Score: 4 | Mar 21, 2024
Steph Green Empire Magazine
Chastain and Sarsgaard are a class act — their touching, tactile chemistry is the film’s triumph.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2024
Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK)
Insinuating and bravely acted, Memory is plotted like a play: there are shades of Florian Zeller’s The Father, albeit with the dementia theme as only one side of the coin here.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 29, 2024
Tom Shone Sunday Times (UK)
A well-acted but dull entry in the Hollywood suffering sweepstakes, the film features Chastain in a rare onscreen romance... and a curious one it turns out to be, with a particularly tender scene in a bathtub.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2024
Kevin Maher Times (UK)
There’s lots of shouting and crying, Chastain and Sarsgaard are eminently watchable, as they always are and the ending is cute, but it also defies logic and any semblance of credibility.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2024
Ellen E Jones Observer (UK)
Gradually and delicately, Sylvia and Saul’s tessellating traumas are revealed by a beautifully balanced pair of lead performances – though their happy-ever-after is never assured.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2024
Tara Brady Irish Times
Franco is kinder to these characters than he has been to many of his creations, leaving the viewer to parse the moral murk.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2024
Paul Whitington Irish Independent
Sombre themes then, but this film is beautifully acted, and the tender chemistry between Sarsgaard and Chastain is a joy to behold.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2024
Clarisse Loughrey Independent (UK)
Memory would be too contrived a work to buy into if it weren’t for the talents of Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2024
Alistair Harkness Scotsman
Though it’s too bad the dramatic framework lacks credibility, Chastain and Sarsgaard do heroic work to make it compelling moment to moment.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2024