Groundhog Day (1993) Review
Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, and the time-loop comedy that doubles as theology. Studied in religion classes and philosophy seminars.
Genre: Time Travel (Page 2)
Time TravelFrequency (2000) Review
A father in 1969 talks to his son in 1999 through a ham radio during an aurora. The film works on a viewer who comes to it cold.
ActionStar Trek: First Contact (1996) Review
First Contact is the best Star Trek film after Wrath of Khan, and that's a significant statement given how many entries the franchise has produced. What separates it from the rest is a structural decision that most franchise filmmaking refuses…
ActionTerminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Review
James Cameron's most audacious decision in Terminator 2 isn't the liquid metal effects or the freeway chase or the nuclear dream sequence. It's taking his own iconic villain and making him the film's emotional center.
Time TravelEdge of Tomorrow (2014) Review
Edge of Tomorrow earns its 8.5 by doing the one thing time-loop narratives almost never manage: making the repetition feel earned instead of gimmicky. Cage doesn't loop because the script needed a device.
Time TravelBack to the Future Trilogy Review
The Back to the Future trilogy earns its 9.5 by solving the hardest problem in serialized storytelling: making three films that each stand alone while building a cumulative argument none of them could make individually. Zemeckis and Gale understood something…
ActionThe Terminator (1984) Review
The original Terminator is a good film that time has treated unevenly. The effects that were groundbreaking in 1984 show their age in ways that occasionally pull you out of the story.
PsychologicalThe Butterfly Effect (2004) Review
The Butterfly Effect has a disturbing premise, childhood trauma so embedded in a group of people that any attempt to fix one person's damage creates worse damage elsewhere, and squanders it through arbitrarily defined mechanics, darkness deployed for shock instead…
DramaPredestination (2014) Review
Predestination is a clever puzzle in search of a reason to exist. The temporal loop at its center, a person who is their own parent, their own child, and their own nemesis, is logically consistent in a way that time…