| 100 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Smart, suspenseful, satisfyingly unpredictable.
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| 100 |
New York Daily News
One of the most skillful, mesmerizing, tense and satisfying time-warp thrillers ever made.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Likely to appeal to the fans of "The Sixth Sense," "Ghost" and other movies where the characters find a loophole in reality. What it also has in common with those two movies is warmth and emotion.
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| 83 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A suspenseful, fascinating movie that milks the premise for all it's worth.
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| 83 |
Portland Oregonian
The star, though, is the script, a rare enough occurrence in Hollywood that it merits special note.
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| 80 |
Newsweek
Jeff Giles
A touching thriller, a movie that's particularly hard to resist if there are things you never said to your own dad because you didn't have the chance, the inclination or the right ham radio.
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| 80 |
Chicago Reader
Quaid's buoyant earnestness complements the stunning, low-key performance by Caviezel, whose close-ups give new meaning to the idea that still waters run deep.
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| 80 |
Dallas Observer
Braugher does much to hold this show together, because without him, the reality gets muddled. He's a terrific balancing agent for both Caviezel and Quaid; kudos to casting.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
It's like a chick flick for men--and the women who love them, sniff-sniff.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A fairly wonderful movie about fathers and sons and the mystery of time.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
Corny and far-fetched it may be, but Frequency works - except for some stretches when it doesn't.
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| 75 |
TNT RoughCut
Don Kaye
Succeeds at getting the viewer to buy into its premise, thanks to solid, often moving characterizations and the gripping way the plot is spun.
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| 75 |
New York Post
Had me watching through misty eyes, at least for the first half.
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| 75 |
Charlotte Observer
Isn't quite smart enough to untangle one large, insoluble problem at the end.
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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
May be the first time travel fantasy to move grown fellows with 401(k) accounts to tears.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Enough originality and emotional weight to keep you engrossed even when it lapses into some pretty standard moves at the end.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
An enjoyably complex sci-fi suspense thriller.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
Emmerich's screenplay gains emotional punch from its sincere concern for family values, but science-fiction fans may be disappointed by the limited exploration of its fascinating time-travel premise.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
A very complicated movie. It is also pretty wonderful.
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| 70 |
Film.com
Confirming the moral of a thousand "Twilight Zone" episodes: Don't play with time.
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| 70 |
Rolling Stone
The time shifting raises questions the movie never answers, but it's hard not to enjoy the ride.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
What makes Frequency work despite is shamelessness is the surreal aura that imbues almost every scene with a sense of heightened feeling.
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| 70 |
Film.com
Moira Macdonald
Worth seeing.
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| 63 |
USA Today
This surprisingly sentimental science-fiction thriller boasts enough fresh twists to satisfy time-travel junkies.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
David Armstrong
There's a novel, engaging story trying to transmit through the storm of special effects and convoluted plot twists that mar the movie.
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| 60 |
Variety
An oddly schizophrenic fantasy thriller that ultimately succumbs to a fatal case of sentimentality.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
What do you get when you cross a serial-killer movie with a sappy father/son drama and give it a time-travel twist?
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Due largely to the tremendous innate warmth and conviction of leads Quaid and Caviezel ("The Thin Red Line"), you may find yourself cutting a surprising amount of slack for this patently ridiculous tale.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
If the trailer for this one left you feeling you'd pretty much got it, plot point by plot point, so really why bother.
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| 50 |
Film.com
Disappointingly dumb.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
After keeping its balance over much treacherous terrain, greedily overreaches and stumbles badly at the close.
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| 20 |
Mr. Showbiz
As an audience member, you end up feeling like a sucker for even having tolerated that sickly sweet notion about a father, a son, and their silly radio.
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