There's a slightly heightened tone to the material, but the issues are complex and very personal, which makes the film involving.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 15, 2024

The Almond and the Seahorse is filled with sadness and pain, but there are moments of sunlight and happiness, which is ultimately the most anyone can ask for in this life.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 14, 2024

Clumsily contrived and disingenuous stuff. A film so grating that you long for the sweet release of amnesia.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 12, 2024

The Almond And The Seahorse gradually coalesces like the pieces of an old memory coming back together.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2024

Worst of all, though, is the syrupy ending that finds an emotional uplift in brain injury and the degradation of memory.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2024

It feels strange that all this international talent should have been brought to the UK for a film so confused and half-baked — and that co-director Tom Stern... should have contributed to something that has the impersonally bright look of daytime 온라인카지노추천.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2024

It’s a shame, but in the end this feels more like a beginner’s lesson in neuroscience than a rewarding drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 6, 2024

Although not as bombastic as some big screen adaptations, this is worth witnessing to watch Rebel Wilson step outside her comfort zone.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 11, 2023

I watched The Almond and the Seahorse (the title gets explained) with the best of hopes for it. It covers important territory and sparks worthwhile discussions. That the film itself flounders and fails is hugely disappointing.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 4, 2023

What might have worked on the stage doesn't necessarily work in cinema.

| Original Score: C | Jan 3, 2023

Only when Sarah and Toni meet for the first time, an hour in, does the film allow a genuine conversation — and, gratefully, a moment of recognition.

| Original Score: C | Dec 17, 2022

It believes it’s deep and meaningful when it needs to be more in tune with the needs of the people in the story. As a result, it serves neither its characters nor the audience.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 16, 2022

... awkwardly juggles elements of quirky misfit comedy with a more melancholy story about letting go of the past and embracing an uncertain future, too often settling for melodramatic contrivances.

| Dec 16, 2022

Much like the memories of its secondary characters, “The Almond and the Seahorse” is rife with gaps and oddities. This is often in the service of melodrama, which lands with a saccharine thud.

| Dec 16, 2022

It’s fertile dramatic ground, though it has been more fruitful in “50 First Dates” and “Memento,” among others. The cast is game. Unfortunately, what should be gut punches feel like glancing blows.

| Dec 16, 2022

The story... feels told rather than explored, keeping all the characters at arm’s length for most of the running time.

| Dec 16, 2022

The film ultimately becomes tasteful to a fault, opting to resolve in a poignant way that robs these stories of recognition or accuracy, which leads to an ending that it studiously should have avoided: something false.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 16, 2022

[T]he screenplay never determines how to dramatize the effects of this condition without resorting to melodrama.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 16, 2022

Both Wilson -- in a rare dramatic role -- and Gainsbourg give strong performances as the partners of people they increasingly struggle to recognize or be recognized by.

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

Undercooked, underwhelming, schmaltzy and uneven while failing to pack an emotional punch.

| Dec 14, 2022