Todd McCarthy gave the film a mixed review in '' Variety '' , writing " The modestly scaled film delivers some moving and affecting moments amid a preponderance of scenes of frequently annoying people behaving badly . " Andrea Gronvall gave a similar assessment in '' The Chicago Reader '' , writing " Allen Coulter directed this morose and sluggish drama , which gets more mileage from Pattinson 's anguished profile than from Will Fetters 's thunderously overwritten screenplay . " Derek Malcolm wrote in '' This Is London '' , " Decently shot and directed as it is , it lacks any real flame . " Kirk Honeycutt of '' The Hollywood Reporter '' gave the film a positive review , stating the " scenes between Pattinson and de Ravin exude genuine charm . " Honeycutt goes on to say that the score and cinematography brought " notable sparkle to this heartfelt drama . " Jake Coyle of The Associated Press did not favor the film and said the " most pleasing thing about the film is its boldness . It may be affected , but it is at least aiming for an intriguing character study — a positive sign in the young career of Pattinson " whom he says steps away from " '' Twilight '' , apparently in search of his '' Five Easy Pieces '' or '' Rebel Without a Cause '' . " Lisa Schwarzbaum of '' Entertainment Weekly '' gave the film a D , calling it a " shameless contraption of ridiculously sad things befalling attractive people . " Schwarzbaum was also critical of Pattinson 's acting and the script . Wesley Morris of the '' Boston Globe '' gave the film a half star out of four , commenting that the film " crassly repurposes tragedy to excuse its cliches . " Other critics also found the movie 's invocation of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center offensive and exploitative , such as Lisa Kennedy of the '' Denver Post '' , who wrote " The finale manages to be tasteful and exploitative at the same time . It touts forgiveness while being mildly infuriating . Such is the danger of borrowing from the enormous to merely entertain . If that . Forgettable should be the last thing a movie touching on the events of 9/11 should be . Yet ' Remember Me ' is just that . " Elizabeth Weitzman of '' The New York Daily News '' also denounced the film 's ending , writing , " 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 . " Roger Ebert generally liked the film , giving it three out of four stars and characterizing it as 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 " but goes on to say it " tries to borrow profound meaning , but succeeds only in upstaging itself so overwhelmingly that its characters become irrelevant "
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Remember Me (2010 film)