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Aug 20, 2021 · Set sometime in the future along the Miami coast—now, devastated by climate change and partially sunken, with a modified version of life still persisting on its belt nocturnally since days are just too hot—“Reminiscence” aims for something existential within a well-recognized film-noir template.
Aug 20, 2021 · Although Reminiscence isn't lacking narrative ambition, its uncertain blend of sci-fi action and noir thriller mostly provokes memories of better films. Read Critics Reviews. Reminiscence has...
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Aug 19, 2021 · Highfalutin, lightly enjoyable mush, “Reminiscence” is one of those speculative fictions that are at once undernourished and overcooked.
Aug 18, 2021 · In “Reminiscence,” a sci-fi noir love story set in a climate-change dystopia that’s just short of the apocalypse enough to make Miami look like Venice with hotter nightclubs, Hugh Jackman ...
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Updated: Aug 18, 2021 11:12 pm
Posted: Aug 18, 2021 4:20 pm
Reminiscence hits theaters and HBO Max on Aug. 20.
What would you do for just one more chance to play fetch with your furry best friend, grab that baby scent from your now all-too-adult child, or wrap your arms around a lost loved one? Lisa Joy imagines a world where there’s a machine that could enable you to relive all those memories in her feature directorial debut Reminiscence, a film noir-inspired, mind-bending thriller that reminds us that the past doesn’t haunt us -- we haunt the ghosts of our past.
In Reminiscence, former veteran Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman), now a private investigator of the mind, finds himself navigating worlds of memories for a quirky variety of clients until his life is changed in an instant while locking eyes with Mae (Rebecca Ferguson). A simple case of locating Mae’s lost keys turns into an obsession. Once she mysteriously vanishes, Nick spends every waking moment fighting to learn the truth regarding her whereabouts and why she disappeared.
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Nick’s chemistry with his best (and only) friend, Emily Watts (Thandiwe Newton, who previously worked with Joy on Westworld), is memorable in a completely different way. Nick loves and respects Emily, but is in love with Mae, which proves to be a hard pill to swallow for Emily. Newton’s skill, substance, and character work stands out here; when she walks into a New Orleans bar and lights it up like the Fourth of July, it’s exhilarating to watch.
Where Reminiscence runs into issues is, ironically, the ways in which it reflects its own premise. There are portions of the story that feel like they’re on a loop -- just like a memory. While the idea of revisiting the past physically and mentally is alluring, watching that play out in the movie is less interesting. To quote Nick himself, “memories are like perfume… better in small doses.”
Lisa Joy’s feature directorial debut, Reminiscence, is an ambitious sci-fi film noir full of love and hope set against the background of a half-underwater Miami on the verge of civil unrest. Like memories themselves, some portions of the movie feel like they’re on a loop. Luckily, excellent performances from Hugh Jackman, Thandiwe Newton, and Rebec...
Aug 18, 2021 · Warner Bros. Hugh Jackman plays an investigator skilled in retrieving lost memories who becomes dangerously obsessed with Rebecca Ferguson's elusive client in 'Reminiscence.
While Jackman and Ferguson are excellent here, Reminiscence is a watered-down sci-fi neo-noir that overstays its welcome by wallowing in a romance that loses steam fast.
