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Marta Barber, Miami Herald: The film won't put you at the edge of your seat, but will keep your attention. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: As slick, fast and terrifyingly violent as a top-grade American crime thriller, but a lot smarter than most. Read more
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Decleir is so commanding in the role that it's easy to dismiss the film's generic trappings. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: We shouldn't commiserate with an assassin, but part of the movie's skill is in making us share Angelo's dread at what's happening to him. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: A gratifyingly slick and fast-moving Flemish thriller, directed by Erik Van Looy, with superb acting. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Close, but not quite. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Though Memory works perfectly well as a policier, it works even better as a character study of a man losing his edge. Read more
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: It is distinguished by the intelligence of its plotting and the fullness of its characterizations: These are believable people, not merely plot fodder. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: An entertaining new crime procedural from Belgium. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: This is one terrific thriller with several wicked tricks up its sleeve, each more satisfying than the last. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The director, Erik Van Looy, knows how to spin a well-oiled policier, but he jacks up the action with 'existential' flash cuts that, like the rest of the movie, end up signifying less than meets the eye. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: This Belgian film has the sheen of polished Hollywood product, amplified by continental elegance and depth. Read more
Mark Olsen, L.A. Weekly: Director Erik Van Looy has filmmaking chops to spare, and while he has created a sharply shot and crisply paced film, he isn't able to make it all cohere, as the moving parts spin in place without any connection or harmony. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: In a summer that hasn't seen many good foreign films, The Memory of a Killer is one worth seeking out. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: [An] absorbing, operatic Belgian detective thriller. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: In the rather less twisty [than Memento], if nicely kinked Belgian thriller The Memory of a Killer, the title character faces his own dangerous adversary, except that here the enemy hot on his heels is dementia. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: This thriller is more textured than the usual exercise in its genre. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Contains the elements of a typical police procedural, transcended and brought to a sad perfection by the performance of a veteran Belgian actor named Jan Decleir. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Overall I found the film a puzzling mixture of convincing local atmospherics and pretentious imported grandeur. Read more
Leslie Camhi, Village Voice: Van Looy has created a fast-paced and stylish thriller. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Decleir's tough-guy vulnerability, which brings to mind such classic screen heavies as Lee J. Cobb and Richard Widmark, gives an otherwise standard police procedural extraordinary grace and power. Read more