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Mystery, Thriller 113 min R
Rotten Tomatoes94%Metacritic83IMDb
Some memories are best forgotten.
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.
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Meticulous, bleak, spare and formally daring.
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A dazzling feat of narrative sleight-of-hand, "Memento" runs its film-noir revenge plot in reverse. Guy Pearce plays an insurance investigator afflicted with short-term amnesia ("I can't make new memories," he explains), trying to track down his wife's murderer with the help of a sheaf of Polaroids…
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