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There are intriguing issues swirling around the film, but [director] Kofman never brings it to a boil, never finds the deeper, truer meaning inside the ideas he is grappling with. May 30, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
There are intriguing issues swirling around the film, but [director] Kofman never brings it to a boil, never finds the deeper, truer meaning inside the ideas he is grappling with.
Mark Olsen
Director Gil Kofman's attempt is noble in trying to show this descent into madness, but something rings false. May 9, 2008 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Director Gil Kofman's attempt is noble in trying to show this descent into madness, but something rings false.
Leba Hertz
In The Memory Thief, a strange and melancholy journey to the heart of madness, a rootless young man finds meaning in the horrors of a stolen past. May 9, 2008 | Rating: 4/5
In The Memory Thief, a strange and melancholy journey to the heart of madness, a rootless young man finds meaning in the horrors of a stolen past.
Jeannette Catsoulis
The film is (perhaps deliberately) as unbalanced as its protagonist, one whose fury ultimately seems directed either nowhere in particular or in too many directions at once -- until things eventually devolve into a Taxi Driver riff. May 7, 2008 | Full Review…
The film is (perhaps deliberately) as unbalanced as its protagonist, one whose fury ultimately seems directed either nowhere in particular or in too many directions at once -- until things eventually devolve into a Taxi Driver riff.
Vadim Rizov
Kofman includes real-life Holocaust survivors in his cast, a bold and unsettling stroke in a fictional story that's more challenging than most documentaries about the subject. May 7, 2008 | Full Review…
Kofman includes real-life Holocaust survivors in his cast, a bold and unsettling stroke in a fictional story that's more challenging than most documentaries about the subject.
Andrea Gronvall
Tragedy and closure, memory and truth are the subjects of writer/director Gil Kofman's first narrative feature. Mar 20, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Tragedy and closure, memory and truth are the subjects of writer/director Gil Kofman's first narrative feature.
Maureen M. Hart
A thoughtful, creative, and disturbing way to treat the numbness of Holocaust and genocide fatigue, through striking images of a man's bizarre transformation and obsession. Dec 7, 2008 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
A thoughtful, creative, and disturbing way to treat the numbness of Holocaust and genocide fatigue, through striking images of a man's bizarre transformation and obsession.
Nora Lee Mandel
The film deserves qualified praise. May 14, 2008 | Full Review…
The film deserves qualified praise.
Eric Monder
While the film tends to talk over itself in its attempt to say all it needs to say on the subject, his film's uncompromisingly bleak vision is a bracing alternative. May 9, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
While the film tends to talk over itself in its attempt to say all it needs to say on the subject, his film's uncompromisingly bleak vision is a bracing alternative.
Ken Fox
Another case study delving into the hubris and insult of trying too hard to feel someone else's pain. May 9, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Another case study delving into the hubris and insult of trying too hard to feel someone else's pain.
Eric Henderson
The Memory Thief, the first narrative feature by Gil Kofman, grants intimate entrance into a needy person's life -- a life bent around the facts of the darkest hours of the 20th century. Mar 28, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The Memory Thief, the first narrative feature by Gil Kofman, grants intimate entrance into a needy person's life -- a life bent around the facts of the darkest hours of the 20th century.
Michele Kenner
A Holocaust movie with quite an original twist--about a tollbooth collector who imagines himself to be a survivor of Nazi horrors. Mar 19, 2008 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
A Holocaust movie with quite an original twist--about a tollbooth collector who imagines himself to be a survivor of Nazi horrors.
Harvey S. Karten
A curious piece wherein a aimless young man without much of a life finds himself by strangely identifying with Holocaust survivors ... their lives were taken from them, you see. What begins as a fancy, a whim, soon becomes an obsession, and the youngster slips into a kind of madness. My guess is that there is some sort of commentary here about the rootlessness of modern times. It certainly has moments that simultaneously ring true and are disconcerting.
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