The Guardian September 9, 2013 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...
Austin Chronicle November 1, 2013 The movie moves episodically, leisurely, through roughly a decade, and that feels like a gift: to nestle in with these extraordinary, ord...
filmcomment.com November 12, 2013 Akin to a children’s novel (the sort where the shadow of death fuzzily looms), About Time turns into a successfully sentimental fam...
Arizona Republic October 31, 2013 Nighy makes it all OK, or mostly.
The latest sprawling romcom/family drama from Richard Curtis way outlasts its charm.
The film left me feeling simultaneously amused and used. Could Richard Curtis go back in time and make a slightly less strenuously adorable mo...
You might feel you’ve seen it all before but you can always play spot the difference.
The film takes few of the liberties you’d expect from its genre, and it conforms to an internal logic throughout.
ReelViews November 4, 2013 With more attention to detail, this could have worked, but the time travel aspects are so badly executed that the movie as a whole falters and...
It’s all so perfect and sparkly that Curtis would rather not break the mood with drama or plot.
Toronto Star October 31, 2013 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...
Rolling Stone October 31, 2013 Dragged down by whimsy and sentiment, About Time feels like it weighs a ton.
Daily Telegraph August 8, 2013 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.
Globe and Mail November 1, 2013 A soap opera of babies, poignant moments, minor crises, and lessons about savouring each day.
USA Today October 30, 2013 A time-travel rom-com with more than romance and comedy on its mind.
Slant Magazine September 25, 2013 A surprisingly thoughtful romantic comedy that shirks a great deal of reason and consequence in the name of love.
New York Post October 31, 2013 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...
Shockya.com September 30, 2013 Time travel functions as a highly entertaining and amusing component, but it’s also embedded in a barrage of tremendously honest and rel...
Film.com September 23, 2013 There won’t be a dry eye in the house, but the tears will be unearned.
Movie Mom October 31, 2013 It is in the third act when things start to get interesting, because that is when the focus shifts to the father-son relationship.
Grantland December 10, 2013 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.
Somehow unsentimental in his sentimentality, Nighy makes shopworn carpe diem platitudes sound like fresh wisdom.
New York Times October 31, 2013 By the time you get home from the multiplex, it will be as if the whole thing never happened.
New Yorker November 11, 2013 Some people will revel in this warm front of innocence; others will reach for their Voltaire.
Beautiful to look at, with its seaside estates and its rain-soaked weddings and besotted characters being lovely to one another, but it’s a t...
CinemaBlend October 3, 2013 About Time is funny and charming as all get out, but its messy core keeps the many pieces of quirk, sentiment and romance from lining up into anyth...
Salon.com October 30, 2013 It raises the inherent implausibility of the rom-com narrative to a new level.
Detroit News November 1, 2013 The script is so willy-nilly about the complexities of the issues it introduces that it winds up collapsing.
The Spectator September 5, 2018 Try as I might, and I did try, I just could not find it interesting or affecting, in any way.
New Yorker November 11, 2013 Some people will revel in this warm front of innocence; others will reach for their Voltaire.
There are just enough laugh-out-loud moments here to excuse the lurches into shameless, tear-jerking sentimentality.
New Statesman August 29, 2013 About Time… in many other ways [is] gentle and compassionate.
RogerEbert.com November 1, 2013 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...
Village Voice November 5, 2013 To get to the parts that are un-terrible, you have to suffer through the most idiotic plot developments and ill-defined characters imaginable.
For moviegoers who can’t fathom any situation worth $10.50 to witness everlasting love, steer clear of "About Time." But the drama...
christylemire.com November 5, 2013 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.
Reel Talk Online September 6, 2017 The film is an overly long attempt for its lead character to create the picturebook life of his dreams.
There’s a lot of comic and fantasy potential here, but much of it gets squandered.
Gleeson and McAdams have a radiant, believable chemistry that keeps the film aloft, while the other actors glide through effortlessly …
Austin Chronicle November 1, 2013 The movie moves episodically, leisurely, through roughly a decade, and that feels like a gift: to nestle in with these extraordinary, ord...
About Time is like a sermon that starts with a few good jokes and ends with tremulous exhortations to live, live.
Guilty pleasure alert: Richard Cutis' sugar-sweet film about love, life and, erm, time travel.
The Guardian August 8, 2013 Curtis has managed to achieve the impossible. Specifically: he has gone back to 1993 and remade Groundhog Day with a ginger Hugh Grant.
Irish Times September 6, 2013 If, as suggested, this really is Curtis’s last film as director, then it’s a good way to go out.
Chicago Reader October 31, 2013 Writer-director Richard Curtis (Love Actually) papers over any disturbing subtext with wall-to-wall cuteness – even the sex jokes sound as if...
Independent August 11, 2017 [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...
Perhaps, like me, you find the oeuvre of British writer-director Richard Curtis a bit – how shall I put it – twee?
The Playlist November 8, 2013 "About Time" uses an ingenious and original comic device, built around the most irresistible commodity any movie can offer…
