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Remember Me forces viewers to remember too much | Sam Thielman

Underground Films & Management/Newscom

It's not quite possible to write a responsible review of Remember Me without spoiling the ending, so I'm warning everyone: This review will ruin the movie for you. If you are a Robert Pattinson fan, rest assured that he's pretty good in it—all of the acting is good, in fact— and that he's just as pale and serious here as he was in the Twilight films.

Remember Me (rated PG-13 for violence, sexual content, language, and smoking) is a drama about a college student named Tyler (heartthrob Pattinson) who gets punched by an overzealous cop (Chris Cooper) after trying to break up a fight in an alley. Cooper's character is gratifyingly complex—his wife is murdered during the movie's prologue and his only joy is his rebellious daughter Ally (Emilie de Ravin). Tyler, naturally, begins dating Ally. One of the movie's best qualities is the skill with which Cooper and Pierce Brosnan (who plays Tyler's dad) show us that their characters aren't monsters—merely men who deeply love their children without being demonstrative.

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