Before 'The Odyssey,' Christopher Nolan's 94% RT Masterpiece Flips the Script and Is Streaming for Free

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Published Mar 8, 2026, 11:20 AM EDT

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Before Christopher Nolan became the filmmaker behind massive studio spectacles and reality-warping blockbusters, he made his name with a much smaller movie that still managed to completely mess with audiences’ heads. It wasn’t flashy in the conventional sense, and it didn’t arrive with the kind of mainstream hype his later work would command, but it instantly marked him as a director with a very different kind of brain.

That film was Memento. Now, 26 years later, Nolan’s breakthrough neo-noir is getting another moment in the spotlight, because Memento is now streaming free on Fawesome. Released in 2000, Memento remains one of the boldest calling cards any filmmaker has ever delivered. The film follows Leonard Shelby, a man suffering from short-term memory loss who is trying to track down the person responsible for his wife’s murder. The catch, of course, is that Leonard can’t form new memories, forcing him to rely on notes, photographs, and tattoos scattered across his own body to keep moving forward.

The film stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, with Carrie-Anne Moss as Natalie, and Joe Pantoliano as Teddy. The supporting cast also includes Mark Boone Junior as Burt, Russ Fega as Waiter, Jorja Fox as Catherine Shelby, Stephen Tobolowsky as Sammy Jankis, Harriet Sansom Harris as Mrs. Jankis, and Callum Keith Rennie as Dodd.

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Is 'Memento' Worth Watching?

Leonard Shelby sits starkly shadowed in crisp black and white in Memento. — Leonard Shelby, played by actor Guy Pearce, sits starkly shadowed in crisp black and white in Memento.

The legendary film critic Roger Ebert opined that Memento is less about solving a mystery and more about experiencing the disorienting mental state of its protagonist, delivering a clever and absorbing thriller that plays with memory, time, and morality in ways that still feel unique. Rather than presenting the narrative in a straightforward timeline, Memento moves backward, beginning near the end of the story and gradually revealing the events that led there. Each scene unfolds normally in chronological order, but the film itself keeps stepping back in time, forcing the audience to piece together the puzzle in reverse.

"The purpose of the movie is not for us to solve the murder of the wife ('I can’t remember to forget you,' he says of her). If we leave the theater not sure exactly what happened, that’s fair enough. The movie is more like a poignant exercise, in which Leonard’s residual code of honor pushes him through a fog of amnesia toward what he feels is his moral duty. The movie doesn’t supply the usual payoff of a thriller (how can it?), but it’s uncanny in evoking a state of mind. Maybe telling it backward is Nolan’s way of forcing us to identify with the hero. Hey, we all just got here."

Memento is streaming on Fawesome.