One sequence, set by a riverside outside of Bogotá, depicts the thin line between life and death with heart-stopping clarity, making us aware of the smallest physical movements that prove more mesmerizing and rewarding than the typical spectacle...

| Jul 9, 2022

It’s a beautiful work of cinematic concentration that’s purely Apichatpong.

| May 9, 2022

You get caught up in it. You don’t ask why. You don’t wonder what’s going on, what will happen next. You just accept it. You trust Weerasethakul. Until about the 100-minute mark (the runtime is 136 minutes), he justifies that trust.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 26, 2022

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s latest is more elusive and even more enveloping than his other beguiling films.

| Apr 22, 2022

It's mesmerizing and definitely not for everyone.

| Apr 19, 2022

Everything in Memoria is far more calculated than you might first suspect, above all its sounds -- which are not just the subject of the film but its substance, finely textured in ways that seem intended to bypass the conscious mind.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 7, 2022

“Memoria” finally reveals itself as a vision from the future — a declaration of faith in a medium that hasn’t lost its power to astonish.

| Apr 7, 2022

Even for the most adventurous viewers, it may prove taxing. But to embrace its strange singularity yields a thought-provoking experience, and perhaps even a transformative one.

| Apr 7, 2022

True to its title, “Memoria’s” theme is memory and its shifting seams and sandlike substrate, on which the footing of the film — and, by extension, our footing as well — is never terribly sure.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 6, 2022

"Memoria" plays out almost like a hallucination... This enigmatic film is more attuned to mood than narrative. But even if "Memoria" is perplexing, it is also incredibly provocative and quietly powerful.

| Apr 2, 2022

Like all of Weerasethakul’s movies, Memoria leaves you feeling like an out-of-body adventurer, tethered by only a slender thread of consciousness to the physical form in the movie seat.

| Apr 1, 2022

Te existential mystery of Memoria is universally applicable. Weerasethakul is unpacking a sensation everyone has probably experienced at one point in their life: the feeling that something is cosmically out of whack.

| Apr 1, 2022

Swinton fully immerses herself in Apichatpong’s vision and soundscape.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 30, 2022

Weerasethakul leaves us trembling on the edge of uncertainty, providing just enough terra firma to keep the viewer engaged while leading them deeper into the realms of the unknown.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2022

Designed and deserving to be seen big and loud, Memoria is a hypnotic, unquantifiable, occasionally inpenetrable sonic odyssey from a unique cinematic voice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2022

If anything, it's a living deja vu. Or the closest cinema can get to that disquieting sensation of meeting someone you're convinced you've encountered before.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2022

Top marks must go to the star Tilda Swinton... who energises the entire movie. And it needs her. For the ideas here are huge.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2022

Rarely less than intriguing, the film transports you more than once to somewhere else entirely, and Swinton is the glue - even if the last act is such slow cinema it all but sets in place.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 13, 2022

How smoothly Memoria loops together all its unexpected moments is mostly rewarding. But that ending! It is a hurdle that inches the film from profundity toward tediousness.

| Dec 30, 2021

Rarely have a filmmaker and performer been so completely on the same page as Tilda Swinton and Apichatpong Weerasethakul are here.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 27, 2021