Beyond the surface novelty of the setting and premise, there's not much here that could exactly be called original. But the layering of reflections and shadows has a ghostly glamour of its own.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2021

Like its characters, it's drunk on what came before, relying too heavily on noir tropes. But its smart, thought-provoking concept isn't so easy to shake off.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2021

Joy doesn't lack for ideas. It's just that there are too many and few of them original.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 26, 2021

The corny script and the static direction are both by Lisa Joy from the 온라인카지노추천 show Westworld. This is her first feature film. It probably won't be her last, but hope springs eternal.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 25, 2021

It's as if the film itself is [wearing a costume] - and there's not much beneath that layer.

| Aug 23, 2021

It's a clever tale, anchored by Jackman doing reliable work as an antihero haunted by his sins.

| Aug 23, 2021

As a noir mystery, Reminiscence is certainly solid, with a series of complications and surprising reveals.

| Aug 23, 2021

Reminiscence has imagination to spare, but it doesn't deliver the precious memories it promises.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2021

Lisa Joy has the potential to be a major film-maker.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2021

The director has great fun playing with genre tropes, but it's unclear whether she's going for heightened camp.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2021

It wants to be Chinatown meets Blade Runner, but it has about the worst dialogue I've heard in a film in forever.

| Aug 20, 2021

Once Reminiscence gets rolling, it's a slick and satisfying ride that barrels to an ending that is suitably beautiful and bleak.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 20, 2021

Reminiscence is the damnedest thing - a movie filled with promising concepts it doesn't get around to exploring, because it's dedicated to a romantic mystery that's never very romantic or mysterious.

| Aug 20, 2021

Perhaps the greatest crime of Reminiscence is how effortlessly it wastes the collective appeal of its A-list cast.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 20, 2021

Even Hugh Jackman's indisputable star power can't light up the pretentious, pseudo-poetic, sci-fi murk of this thundering misfire, which will only make you remember other, better movie mindbenders. 'Blade Runner' anyone?

| Aug 20, 2021

For a film about memories, Reminiscence is ultimately truly forgettable.

| Aug 20, 2021

A burdensome slog.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 20, 2021

Reminiscence's noir adornments inadvertently feel closer to parody than loving homage.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2021

I sank into restlessness and thought of a phrase from "Krapp's Last Tape," not a movie but the peerless play by Samuel Beckett -- "drowned in dreams and burning to be gone." While Nick was doing the drowning, I was doing the burning.

| Aug 19, 2021

It's visually inviting, but as flimsy as a paper doll in its themes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2021