| 100 |
Entertainment Weekly
A voyeur's delight.
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| 91 |
Portland Oregonian
An audaciously unique and exciting film, not as successful as an A-to-Z story as it is mind-expanding as a vision of what the cinema can do.
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| 90 |
Variety
If the satire feels familiar, and the dramatics often contrived, there's rarely a moment here when something funny, intense or cleverly interconnected doesn't keep one's synapses firing on overdrive.
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| 90 |
LA Weekly
We're afforded the illusion of an omniscience so complete as to mark a pioneering breakthrough in movie storytelling, one not to be missed.
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| 90 |
The New York Times
It's amazing to see a film so brazenly experimental, so committed to reflecting on the circumstances and techniques of its making, that is at the same time so intent upon delivering old-fashioned cinematic pleasures like humor and pathos, character and plot.
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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
The movie world could use more stunts as entertaining and innovative as this one.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
A clever way of providing crucial layering and heightening a hip, satirical take on bad old Hollywood ways.
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| 80 |
Dallas Observer
We become so absorbed in the ramifications of the techniques involved that a more challenging plot might have resulted in sensory overload.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
This is a big, audacious stunt of a movie -- pointless, perhaps, but incredibly fun to play with.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
It would be even more impressive if the story and characters lived up to the inventive techniques, though.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Is the story being told worth a movie on its own merits? No way. Time Code exists as an esthetic event -- either a trick or a treat, depending on your expectations.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
I'm glad I saw the film. It challenged me.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
Once you get the hang of Figgis' own brand of coercion -- one based on an intricate sound design and musical score -- you find yourself happily going along for the ride.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Like a good supermarket tabloid, Time Code grabs - and keeps - our attention.
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| 70 |
Film.com
A fascinating combination of dare, stunt and genuine artistic risk -- often disorganized, but never less than entertaining.
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| 70 |
Newsweek
Andrea C. Basora
You may leave the theater with a bit of a headache, but you'll feel amply compensated by the sense of having seen a master inventor at work.
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| 70 |
Mr. Showbiz
Richard T. Jameson
But for all its pretensions toward exemplifying a brave new way of making movies, Time Code offers less and less worth discovering as it slouches toward its tritely "fatal" climax.
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| 70 |
TV Guide
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Figgis's bold narrative strategy turns what could have been a standard-issue chronicle of shallow Hollywood lives into a fluid and enthralling experience.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It induces a serious case of sensory overload that left me drained and edgy.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
Just fascinating in an empty, trendy sort of way
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| 60 |
Time
This spectacle of strenuous improvising is more stunt than true experiment.
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| 60 |
Village Voice
I suspect that Time Code was a lot more fun to make than it is to watch.
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| 60 |
Washington Post
But for all the meta-movie excitement, the content danced somewhere between mildly interesting and moderately enjoyable.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Story pitches are made. Coke is snorted. There is lesbian sex. Fellatio. An earthquake. A murder. Just another day in Hollywood.
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| 50 |
New York Post
In fact, for long stretches, especially during the first hour, it's as soporific as watching a bank of security cameras.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Gimmicky artifice.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Both a headache and a marvel, often eliciting simultaneous groans of despair and sheer wonder at the director's nervy chutzpah.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
An irrefutable triumph of engineering, and it entertained and intrigued me through two separate viewings...though as a view of the human condition it's astonishingly and depressingly meager.
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| 40 |
Washington Post
A brain-cramping and eye-straining experiment in digital filmmaking.
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| 40 |
Film.com
Just because you can make a movie in a day doesn't necessarily mean moviegoers should take an hour and a half to watch it.
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| 30 |
Rolling Stone
Even with sex, drugs, hip-hop and a murder, these four stories are dull, dull, dull, dull.
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