A good movie based on H.G. Wells' classic novel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2010

Although it gets off to a decent start, this "Time Machine" breaks down when it gets to the distant future, which in this case isn't a good place to be stranded.

| Mar 27, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

If H.G. Wells had a time machine and could take a look at his kin's reworked version, what would he say? 'It looks good, Sonny, but you missed the point.'

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 6, 2002

One of those staggeringly well-produced, joylessly extravagant pictures that keep whooshing you from one visual marvel to the next, hastily, emptily.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 20, 2002

Wells' movie is more content to rip off Tomb Raider than remain faithful to his great-grandfather's book.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2002

Pitiful entertainment, succeeding neither as spectacle, as action-adventure, or as love story.

| Original Score: D | May 9, 2002

It's passable big-budget trash, with a few diverting moments and a refreshing clarity in the design of the sets and special effects.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2002

If it's remembered at all, it will be as a time capsule of early-21st-century blockbuster cowardice and redundancy.

Full Review | Mar 12, 2002

A zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects, hoary dialogue, fluxing accents, and -- worst of all -- silly-looking Morlocks.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2002

In the new film, it's personal tragedy that provokes the journey, not social upheaval or even scientific curiosity -- which, predictably, makes for a story that's at once more familiar and less interesting.

Full Review | Mar 9, 2002

They gave The Time Machine a major overhaul and ended up with a clunker.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 9, 2002

Amazingly stilted before accelerating into its exciting finish.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 8, 2002

The film is weirdly disjointed and uncertain as to tone.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 8, 2002

Simon Wells, whose other films include the animated The Prince of Egypt and Balto, manages to gut all the gee-whiz from the practically foolproof time-travel genre -- despite being H.G.'s real-life great-grandson.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 8, 2002

Midway through the movie, just when it seems that it might amount to something interesting, we're suddenly transported to the set of a very bad remake of Planet Of The Apes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 8, 2002

... unlike the shiny machine at its center, its timing is off, and it never quite soars.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 8, 2002

... there's something wrong with a time-travel movie that allows an audience's interest to drift so that we have time to worry over where he's parked, and whether he remembered to take his key.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 8, 2002

... an agreeable time-wasting device -- but George Pal's low-tech 1960 version still rules the epochs.

| Mar 8, 2002

Not exactly H.G. Wells, but sturdy and effective.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 8, 2002