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Richard Corliss, Time: MODERATE "The movie exhausts its capital about halfway through -- devolving, as the Timekeeper tracks the lovers on the run, into a series of car chases and foot races..." (Read the full review...) 939 words, 10/27/11 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...rather brisk, enjoyable entertainment. And with its gaping disparity between the haves and the have-nots causing increasing class tension, it also has the added benefit of being relevant." (Read the full review...) 637 words, 10/27/11 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...for about 45 minutes the movie is taut and intriguing.... Timberlake and Seyfried's relationship is way too thin to make us believe in them as a powerful outlaw couple..." (Read the full review...) 521 words, 10/29/11 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: MODERATE (cg) "Pretty cast. Potent premise. Piss-poor execution." (Read the full review...) 291 words, 10/27/11 Scott Bowles, USA Today: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...despite a terrific concept that could make for an 'Inception,' we get 'Logan's Run' meets 'Robin Hood.' And not the good parts." (Read the full review...) 455 words, 10/28/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "The premise is damnably intriguing.... That said, a great deal of this film has been assembled from standard elements." (Read the full review...) 761 words, 10/28/11 Kat Murphy, MSN Movies: WEAK (cg) "...full of footraces and car chases but succumbs to narrative inertia... The acting runs from predictable to wooden to just plain silly." (Read the full review...) 812 words, 10/27/11 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Take away the science fiction element and this is a routine story about lovers on the run robbing banks and distributing their ill-gotten gains to legions of the poor." (Read the full review...) 888 words, 10/28/11
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: MODERATE "...where Mr. Niccol lets his images do the talking, the movie works... But then the characters open their mouths and start going on about minutes and hours, clocks and watches..." (Read the full review...) 886 words, 10/28/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: POOR (cg) "Sadly, for 99% of its running time, this muddled sci-fi drama is filled with enough overplotting, bad acting and riddle-speak dialogue to stop a clock." (Read the full review...) 429 words, 10/28/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "What's missing are the kind of moments that actually matter, the ones that are so gripping that you want desperately for time to stop..." (Read the full review...) 709 words, 10/28/11 Kyle Smith, New York Post: WEAK (cg) "This future looks awfully passé..." (Read the full review...) 675 words, 10/28/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "I like a lot of the film despite its drawbacks; its violence isn't rote or numbing, and there's a simplicity and elegance to the digital-countdown effect." (Read the full review...) 544 words, 10/28/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: MODERATE (cg) "Occasionally clever and inventive, but the hokey action and sloppy writing might have you watching the clock." (Read the full review...) 363 words, 10/28/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "The premise is damnably intriguing.... That said, a great deal of this film has been assembled from standard elements." (Read the full review...) 761 words, 10/28/11 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD "...pleasing, often rousing... Timberlake and Seyfried make a foxy, well-matched duo..." (Read the full review...) 427 words, 11/02/11 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: WEAK (cg) "Writer-director Andrew Niccol ('Gattaca,' 'S1m0ne') has hit on a smart concept, then takes it nowhere.... the lack of a plot soon catches up..." (Read the full review...) 511 words, 10/28/11 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...it's all premise, but give the writer credit: His conceit is sufficiently clever to hook us instantly and keep our interest high while we wait for the plot to meaningfully engage." (Read the full review...) 742 words, 10/28/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "Once the action-movie engine takes over, it's impossible to turn off - and all the intriguing ideas that Niccol's been toying with are suddenly abandoned.... the story hits a conceptual dead end." (Read the full review...) 619 words, 11/03/11
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...engages with philosophy and politics in a way that few action movies do.... not just stylish but surprisingly substantial.' " (Read the full review...) 619 words, 10/28/11 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: MODERATE (cg) "Philip K. Dick for knuckleheads.... falls back on the obvious and the repetitive, and on the creakier conventions of the thriller genre." (Read the full review...) 549 words, 10/28/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Timberlake is more adequate than epic... Seyfried, in a red flapper's bob, impossibly high heels and provocatively short skirts, still seems an innocent young thing playing at being bad." (Read the full review...) 608 words, 10/28/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "Neatly conceived but imperfectly executed." (Read the full review...) 437 words, 10/28/11 Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: WEAK (cg) "...a silly muddle filled with plot holes... the future it depicts is utterly unconvincing." (Read the full review...) 414 words, 10/28/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "Niccol is smart and his movies are handsome and enticingly visual, but his thinking rarely goes deeper than what's topical. He's the intellectual equivalent of a stick-on tattoo." (Read the full review...) 859 words, 10/28/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...both flawed and fascinating... give it this, at the very least: Even at its most far-fetched or thinly plotted, you never feel that 'In Time' is wasting a second of yours." (Read the full review...) 576 words, 10/28/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Years from now, when they write about the movies of the Great Recession, 'In Time' will deserve a serious look." (Read the full review...) 553 words, 10/28/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...fairly diverting for a while... [eventually,] it loses its steam; it's an intriguing concept, rather than a compelling story. Before the movie's over, its time is up." (Read the full review...) 346 words, 10/28/11 Mike Russell, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "Niccol is practicing the old-school craft of making a barn-broad alternate-reality that forces you to think about the way we all consensually agree to participate in systems..." (Read the full review...) 350 words, 10/28/11 Kevin Johnson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "It's all a little ho-hum. 'I didn't start the clock. I can't turn it back,' a character says. Moviegoers may feel the same way about time lost with 'In Time.' " (Read the full review...) 407 words, 10/28/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: POOR (cg) "...out of line from the get-go... the stupidest sci-fi premise in recent memory.... doesn't even make it interesting when characters are 'timed out.' " (Read the full review...) 484 words, 10/27/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...there are plenty of questions to ask about 'In Time,' which is essentially a good sci-fi premise gone kooky and poorly delivered. Is it worth your time? Only if you have time to kill." (Read the full review...) 598 words, 10/28/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The movie tries to do a little of everything... it spreads itself too thin. But even though the story doesn't grab you, the world of 'In Time' still fascinates." (Read the full review...) 702 words, 10/28/11
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD "...pleasing, often rousing... Timberlake and Seyfried make a foxy, well-matched duo..." (Read the full review...) 427 words, 11/02/11 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: WEAK (cg) "...loses track of the nifty sci-fi idea that is the best thing the movie has going for it." (Read the full review...) 566 words, 10/27/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: WEAK (cg) "...the rich monopolize time and buy immortality at the expense of the poor, who are doled out their lives hand-to-watch.... Niccol's metaphor gets silly fast." (Read the full review...) 151 words, 11/03/11 Tasha Robinson, AV Club: MODERATE (cg) "Timberlake's rigidity doesn't help... the performance is anonymous and bland." (Read the full review...) 510 words, 10/27/11 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...part 'Robin Hood,' part 'Bonnie and Clyde'.... Niccol makes sure that his movie, despite its blunt message, never succumbs to preachiness." (Read the full review...) 1,183 words, 10/26/11 Nick Schager, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...pockmarked by many all-too-convenient developments designed to hurriedly move the plot forward... a passably diverting action-packed waste of time." (Read the full review...) 611 words, 10/26/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "Once the action-movie engine takes over, it's impossible to turn off - and all the intriguing ideas that Niccol's been toying with are suddenly abandoned.... the story hits a conceptual dead end." (Read the full review...) 619 words, 11/03/11 Edward Adams, Atlanta Creative Loafing: WEAK (cg) "...you'll be marginally entertained but hopefully find the socio-economic statements to be a topic for further conversation." (Read the full review...) 852 words, 10/28/11 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: MODERATE (cg) "...spins its wheels in standard action-movie form until it reaches an end that feels, in retrospect, entirely unlike the one the story, with its early anger, was surely heading toward." (Read the full review...) 622 words, 10/31/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: MODERATE "...looks great, sounds stilted and plays like a clever videogame with too many rules." (Read the full review...) 319 words, 10/28/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: MODERATE "...where Mr. Niccol lets his images do the talking, the movie works... But then the characters open their mouths and start going on about minutes and hours, clocks and watches..." (Read the full review...) 886 words, 10/28/11 Jeannette Catsoulis, NPR: POOR "...a supremely silly lovers-on-the-lam caper all tarted up with a dash of sci-fi seriousness.... it's astonishing how dreary this all is." (Read the full review...) 730 words, 10/27/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "What's missing are the kind of moments that actually matter, the ones that are so gripping that you want desperately for time to stop..." (Read the full review...) 709 words, 10/28/11 Dana Stevens, Slate: POOR "...bizarrely stilted... so consistently flat-footed, with pauses between lines of dialogue so vast, that you begin to wonder if the whole thing might be a psychological experiment of some kind." (Read the full review...) 758 words, 10/28/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...even if 'In Time' descends from its gripping and thought-provoking premise into a mediocre chase thriller before it's over, it's still pretty damn satisfying to watch..." (Read the full review...) 1,052 words, 10/26/11
Peter Debruge, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "A tightrope walk between inspired high-concept storytelling and near-agonizing obviousness..." (Read the full review...) 937 words, 10/26/11 Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...novel and absorbing in several respects... feels undernourished in other ways that are not as salutary, preventing the film from fulfilling its strong inherent promise." (Read the full review...) 1,083 words, 10/26/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "What's missing are the kind of moments that actually matter, the ones that are so gripping that you want desperately for time to stop..." (Read the full review...) 709 words, 10/28/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: MODERATE "...where Mr. Niccol lets his images do the talking, the movie works... But then the characters open their mouths and start going on about minutes and hours, clocks and watches..." (Read the full review...) 886 words, 10/28/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: MODERATE "...looks great, sounds stilted and plays like a clever videogame with too many rules." (Read the full review...) 319 words, 10/28/11
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