Reviews for this film from our members:
- Mario Alegre @ Primera Hora [Spanish]
- [New – 3/20/14] | Dragan Antulov @ Croatian [Croatian]
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …Richard Curtis returns with another of his squishy works, likable actors engaging in weddings and funerals throughout a story that inevitably runs too long approaching a climax that will be in plain view for anyone who’s seen a movie or two.
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: This a sweet, thoughtful, even thought-provoking movie about the human condition, and interestingly, for a movie with a fair amount of rainy English weather, it’s remarkably sunny.
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk
- Excerpt: …its premise, a time-traveling romance set in London, is astoundingly basic even for the genre.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Shamelessly sentimental, this feel-good fantasy fable will tickle your funny bone and tug at your heart.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: I kept waiting for some moral comeuppance. Some instance where our “hero” would learn that women are not objects to be manipulated, but it never comes.
- Blake Howard @ Graffiti with Punctuation
- Excerpt: About Time is writer/director Richard Curtis campaigning the audience to cherish every single second of our fleeting existence. Yes we can.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Arbitrary and inconsistent rules of time travel in aid of creepy romantic manipulation and temporal stalking. But hey, at least it’s got Bill Nighy!
- Ben Kendrick @ Screen Rant
- Excerpt: A charming and captivating character drama – with a few clumsy time-travel ideas.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Unmistakably sweet and joyously life-affirming. At the end of the day, good old-fashioned charm carries it.
- Oktay Ege Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Excerpt: It has the romance of a cozy rom com, the philosophy of a greeting card, and the sentimentality of a life insurance commercial. But the combination comes together so wonderfully that it won me over all the same.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Frank Ochieng @ SFcrowsnest
- Excerpt: Predictably, ‘About Time’ has its saccharine-coated moments along with some bouts of flimsy feel-good pithiness attached. Still, Curtis is the modern-day architect of the affable ‘rom-com’ entries so he astutely injects the right amount of quirky humor, sweetness and magical spunk to mark the serviceable ‘About Time’ a few notches above the limited synthetic romantic time travel tales floating around aimlessly.
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: All time travel movies have some internal logic issues, but Curtis spells things out for us here in black & white – and then proceeds to trample all over his own arbitrary conditions.
- Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Jamie S. Rich @ Oregon Live
- Excerpt: Curtis grapples with some heavy material, and it’s better than the lighter lead-in, but the weight eventually proves too much. The filmmaker establishes his own logic for his fanciful story, only to violate that same logic repeatedly.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: It just reaches way too far and is a jumble of too many themes and ideas.
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Jose Solis @ StageBuddy
- Josh Spiegel @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: Even with the science-fiction concept at the story’s core, About Time is, at best, a very cute movie.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: When this schmaltzy, britally manipulative dramedy finally grinds to a halt, it’s you who’ll probably be saying ‘It’s about time.’
