The Memory of a KillerMovie Reviews



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  • 88
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Carrie Rickey

    A cracking police procedural from Belgian director Erik van Looy, has a jaw-dropping premise so smartly executed that if this movie weren't in Flemish I'd swear that Michael Mann had directed it. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Wilmington

    The movie itself is as slick, fast and terrifyingly violent as a top-grade American crime thriller, but a lot smarter than most. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Watch Jan Decleir's performance. He never goes for the easy effect, never pushes too hard, is a rock-solid occupant of his character. Read full review

  • 80
    Wall Street Journal |

    This award-winning picture from Belgium is the kind Hollywood seems no longer interested in making: a sophisticated drama that presumes a level of insight and maturity in an audience that doesn't need winks and arrows to understand what's going on. Read full review

  • 75
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    Absorbing, operatic. Read full review

  • 75
    New York Post | V.A. Musetto

    Writer-director Erik Van Looy keeps the action moving briskly. Danny Elsen's cinematography is stylish and the acting top-notch. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Walter Addiego

    This Belgian crime thriller makes compelling viewing out of a "you can't be serious" plotline. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    Entertaining. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    Although comparisons to the memory-challenged machinations of "Memento" are inevitable, the plotting here takes a more traditionally linear path. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    A lot of thrillers have asked us to identify with assassins -- but I'd be hard-pressed to name one that makes a hitman as sympathetic, if not sentimental, as The Memory of a Killer. Read full review

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