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100
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Memento, which may be the ultimate existential thriller, has a spooky repetitive urgency that takes on the clarity of a dream.
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90
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The New York Times Dana Stevens
A brilliant feat of rug-pulling, sure to delight fans of movies like "The Usual Suspects" and "Pi."
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90
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
A provocatively structured and thrillingly executed film noir, an intricate, inventive use of cinema's possibilities that pushes what can be done on screen in an unusual direction.
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90
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Like the best filmmakers at Sundance 2001, Nolan leaps into the wild blue and dares us to leap with him. Go for it.
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90
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
You're exhilarated from beginning to end.
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90
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
Unforgettable, especially in Pearce's startling performance.
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90
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Operates in an orbit somewhere between Oliver Sacks and Lewis Carroll. I can't remember when a movie has seemed so clever, strangely affecting and slyly funny at the very same time.
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88
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USA Today Mike Clark
Has the unanticipated craft and artfully ambiguous appeal of last year's "Croupier," a movie whose art-house word-of-mouth success could be duplicated here.
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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A diabolical and absorbing experience.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
Bound to be talked about, debated and eviscerated far more than it's understood.
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