- Starring: Bill Nighy, Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams
- Summary:
- Director: Richard Curtis
- Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 7
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Mixed: 3 out of 7
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Negative: 1 out of 7
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Sep 2, 201380More than just a time-travel rom-com, this is a movie that asks you questions and doesn’t sugar-coat as many of the answers as you’d expect. Smart and sweet, funny and genuinely moving. Should probably come with a ‘there’s something in my eye’ warning.
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70Curtis ends up making a virtue out of the narrative’s episodic quality, a tendency that’s been criticized in his previous work; the film, like life, is just one damn thing after another, and that’s really the rather lovely point.
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63A surprisingly thoughtful romantic comedy that shirks a great deal of reason and consequence in the name of love.
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60There are just enough laugh-out-loud moments here to excuse the lurches into shameless, tear-jerking sentimentality.
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60About Time is itself a film less directed than quilted: it’s a feathery old patchwork under which you might snuggle at the end of a tiring week.
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40Curtis's heart is in the right place. In fact, it's all over the place – front and centre and backlighting the whole thing with a benevolent glow. But it is hard not to watch this, read the news that it will probably be his last as a director, and look to the future.
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25About Time, inadvertently, reveals itself to be About Men, and how they devise lies in order to create the illusion that all women supposedly want to see.
