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  • 2000
  • R
  • Screen Gems
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2000
  • R
  • Screen Gems
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary Mike Figgis's boldly innovative movie, using entirely improvised dialogue, simultaneously shows the audience four separate digital "movies," directing the audience's attention by manipulating the volume within the shots. The four individual movies, each shot simultaneously in 93 minutes of "real time" and synchronized by a series of ear...

Directed By: Mike Figgis

Written By: Mike Figgis

  • 2000
  • R
  • Screen Gems
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2000
  • R
  • Screen Gems
  • 1 h 37 m

Timecode

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 31 Critic Reviews
65
User Score Overwhelming Dislike Based on 36 User Ratings
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Summary Mike Figgis's boldly innovative movie, using entirely improvised dialogue, simultaneously shows the audience four separate digital "movies," directing the audience's attention by manipulating the volume within the shots. The four individual movies, each shot simultaneously in 93 minutes of "real time" and synchronized by a series of ear...

Directed By: Mike Figgis

Written By: Mike Figgis

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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65% Positive
20 Reviews
32% Mixed
10 Reviews
3% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 31 Critic Reviews
65
65% Positive
20 Reviews
32% Mixed
10 Reviews
3% Negative
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100
A voyeur's delight.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
88
The movie world could use more stunts as entertaining and innovative as this one.
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75
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.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
70
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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60
But for all the meta-movie excitement, the content danced somewhere between mildly interesting and moderately enjoyable.
By Stephen Hunter FULL REVIEW
50
Story pitches are made. Coke is snorted. There is lesbian sex. Fellatio. An earthquake. A murder. Just another day in Hollywood.
By Bob Graham FULL REVIEW
30
Even with sex, drugs, hip-hop and a murder, these four stories are dull, dull, dull, dull.
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Overwhelming Dislike Based on 36 User Ratings
1.3
11% Positive
4 Ratings
6% Mixed
2 Ratings
83% Negative
30 Ratings

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User Score
Overwhelming Dislike Based on 36 User Ratings
1.3
11% Positive
4 Ratings
6% Mixed
2 Ratings
83% Negative
30 Ratings

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Production Company Screen Gems, Red Mullet Productions
Release Date Apr 28, 2000
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Four cameras. One take. No edits. Real time.
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Awards

Chlotrudis Awards
• 1 Nomination
DVD Exclusive Awards
• 1 Nomination

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