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  • 2008
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary Hector is relaxing on a lawn chair outside of his new country home, surveying the nearby hillside through a pair of binoculars, when he catches sight of what appears to be a nude woman amidst the trees. Hiking up to investigate, he is attacked by a sinister figure whose head is wrapped in a grotesque, pink bandage. Fleeing in terror, he ...

Directed By: Nacho Vigalondo

Written By: Nacho Vigalondo

  • 2008
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m

Timecrimes

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
68
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 47 User Ratings
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Summary Hector is relaxing on a lawn chair outside of his new country home, surveying the nearby hillside through a pair of binoculars, when he catches sight of what appears to be a nude woman amidst the trees. Hiking up to investigate, he is attacked by a sinister figure whose head is wrapped in a grotesque, pink bandage. Fleeing in terror, he ...

Directed By: Nacho Vigalondo

Written By: Nacho Vigalondo

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When done well, they are scintillating cinematic brain teasers, and Timecrimes is one of the best time travel films to come along in, er, quite some time.
By Merle Bertrand FULL REVIEW
75
Vigalondo is only partially capable of building suspense (the film's latter stages contain one knot too many); his achievement owes more to his imagination than his pop craftsmanship.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW

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72% Positive
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17% Mixed
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KostersK
Mar 15, 2012
Best foreign film I've seen in a while. If you are in the mood for a suspense, thriller and either can deal with subtitles, enjoy them, or speak Spanish; watch this film! It really was nice to watch a movie that is not a remake, super cliche, or with terrible acting. Speaking of acting, there are really only four actors in this film, two of which are very minor, and one is the director. All together, the acting was superb.Timecrimes flows so well, and without any confusion. A person with little to no understanding in topics like the pseudoscience workings of a time machine, or knowledge of the space time continuum could easily understand what is happening in the film. The movie was close-to perfectly written and pieced together with zero holes that I could find. I seriously may re-watch this movie with my fiance or friends very soon, and it would be totally worth it. For my full review, visit ****/2012/03/timecrimes.html
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tonyGreen
Feb 14, 2017
Overall pretty engaging. Two negatives - unrealistic character reactions to events, and lack of motivation in the plot (particularly in Hectors actions in the middle piece). On the plus side there's a pretty clever bit of time-twisty plot logic, and the those twists come so fast your head won't stop spinning
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75
Overall, it's a nice melding of sci-fi and a crime story.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
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Yet while it isn't that hard to stay a step or two ahead of Timecrimes, the movie is still a nifty little genre piece, an old-fashioned science-fiction mind-game with a healthy dollop of "Oh, the irony."
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Timecrimes welds a B-movie plotline to precision-engineered writing and a down-to-earth style; add an engagingly sloppy, nonplussed hero, who remains unfazed by the time-bending scrape in which he finds himself, and the result is memorably offbeat.
By Jonathan Holland FULL REVIEW
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There's a dark and demented little psychodrama of self-inflicted madness beneath the narrative contrivances. Vigalondo's direction makes it work more like a waking nightmare than a genuine experience, and he gives it the quality of madness.
By Sean Axmaker FULL REVIEW
40
Only half as clever as it thinks and even less entertaining.
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JLuis_001
Jan 12, 2021
Many people praised Vigalondo for Colossal, which for me was a huge disappointment, but from everything I've seen of him so far, this is his best film.
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mbeckford
Nov 9, 2020
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Colbert
Sep 11, 2016
$2.6m budget for this! It would be difficult to justify $50k. Weak time loop trite. Watch it for a laugh but don't expect any special effects apart from a bit of tomato sauce.
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Production Company Karbo Vantas Entertainment, Fine Productions, Zip Films, Arsénico Producciones
Release Date Dec 12, 2008
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating R
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Tagline A Trip Back in Time... from Present to Crime
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Awards

Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Trieste Science+Fiction Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Austin Fantastic Fest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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