About Time

It is in the third act when things start to get interesting, because that is when the focus shifts to the father-son relationship.

Some people will revel in this warm front of innocence; others will reach for their Voltaire.

A surprisingly thoughtful romantic comedy that shirks a great deal of reason and consequence in the name of love.

Nighy makes it all OK, or mostly.

Even in a work of science fiction like this, Gleeson seems beyond real. All those foam-faces being made in the dark? They’re for him.

The film left me feeling simultaneously amused and used. Could Richard Curtis go back in time and make a slightly less strenuously adorable mo...

[About Time] is less a rom com than a family drama and though it loses its way in the middle, it is when Curtis allows these familial ties to...

A time-travel rom-com with more than romance and comedy on its mind.

Time travel functions as a highly entertaining and amusing component, but it’s also embedded in a barrage of tremendously honest and rel...

You might feel you’ve seen it all before but you can always play spot the difference.

There are just enough laugh-out-loud moments here to excuse the lurches into shameless, tear-jerking sentimentality.

The film takes few of the liberties you’d expect from its genre, and it conforms to an internal logic throughout.

Gleeson and McAdams have a radiant, believable chemistry that keeps the film aloft, while the other actors glide through effortlessly …

Akin to a children’s novel (the sort where the shadow of death fuzzily looms), About Time turns into a successfully sentimental fam...

Somehow unsentimental in his sentimentality, Nighy makes shopworn carpe diem platitudes sound like fresh wisdom.

As I stood outside the preview screening watching middle-aged men and women alike wiping away a tear, it was evident that, for all its flaws...

About Time… in many other ways [is] gentle and compassionate.

It likely won’t top the box office of such previous Curtis enchantments as Love Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral, but like most...

For all its glutinous cuteness, damn if "About Time" doesn’t sneak up and sock you in the tear ducts. I tried not to fall for it. I...

For moviegoers who can’t fathom any situation worth $10.50 to witness everlasting love, steer clear of "About Time." But the drama...

If, as suggested, this really is Curtis’s last film as director, then it’s a good way to go out.

I cannot help but fall for Richard Curtis’s rather self-indulgent romantic comedies. My level head might be crying 'No,' but my lopsided hear...

The movie moves episodically, leisurely, through roughly a decade, and that feels like a gift: to nestle in with these extraordinary, ord...

Some people will revel in this warm front of innocence; others will reach for their Voltaire.

"About Time" uses an ingenious and original comic device, built around the most irresistible commodity any movie can offer…

It’s great to be challenged and needled and stung by cinema, but watching a film needn’t always be a battle; Time is on your side.

You may as well check your cynicism at the door, because Curtis & Co. are going to find a way to trample all over it – adorably.

The movie moves episodically, leisurely, through roughly a decade, and that feels like a gift: to nestle in with these extraordinary, ord...