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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Film ThreatMerle BertrandFilm ThreatMerle BertrandWhen done well, they are scintillating cinematic brain teasers, and Timecrimes is one of the best time travel films to come along in, er, quite some time.
- 75The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayYet while it isn't that hard to stay a step or two ahead of Timecrimes, the movie is still a nifty little genre piece, an old-fashioned science-fiction mind-game with a healthy dollop of "Oh, the irony."
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoAccording to rumors swirling on the Internet, an English-language remake is already in the works, possibly directed by David Cronenberg.
- 70Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesVigalondo explores it (time travel) just enough to keep this thriller moving, and Karra Elejalde is entirely convincing as the unwilling time traveler, who finds himself threatened by not only his past self but his future one as well.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterAs a whole, the picture is, frustratingly, always much more about structure than substance.
- 70VarietyJonathan HollandVarietyJonathan HollandTimecrimes welds a B-movie plotline to precision-engineered writing and a down-to-earth style; add an engagingly sloppy, nonplussed hero, who remains unfazed by the time-bending scrape in which he finds himself, and the result is memorably offbeat.
- 70The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe Spanish writer and director Nacho Vigalondo has audacity to spare. Constructing a looping, economical plot and directing like a fire marshal in a flaming building, he conjures urgency and disorientation from the thinnest of air.
- 67Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerSeattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerThere's a dark and demented little psychodrama of self-inflicted madness beneath the narrative contrivances. Vigalondo's direction makes it work more like a waking nightmare than a genuine experience, and he gives it the quality of madness.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceModestly diverting.
- Only half as clever as it thinks and even less entertaining.