Try as I might, and I did try, I just could not find it interesting or affecting, in any way.

| Sep 5, 2018

The film is an overly long attempt for its lead character to create the picturebook life of his dreams.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 6, 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 shine that the film comes into its own.

| Aug 11, 2017

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.

| Dec 10, 2013

Akin to a children's novel (the sort where the shadow of death fuzzily looms), About Time turns into a successfully sentimental family film in the literal sense of the term.

| Nov 12, 2013

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

| Nov 11, 2013

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

| Nov 8, 2013

There's a lot of comic and fantasy potential here, but much of it gets squandered.

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

| Nov 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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 5, 2013

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

| Nov 1, 2013

It's all so perfect and sparkly that Curtis would rather not break the mood with drama or plot.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 1, 2013

Perhaps, like me, you find the oeuvre of British writer-director Richard Curtis a bit -- how shall I put it -- twee?

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 1, 2013

The movie moves episodically, leisurely, through roughly a decade, and that feels like a gift: to nestle in with these extraordinary, ordinary people and get to know them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2013

A soap opera of babies, poignant moments, minor crises, and lessons about savouring each day.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 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 heart can't help but say yes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 1, 2013

The script is so willy-nilly about the complexities of the issues it introduces that it winds up collapsing.

| Original Score: C | Nov 1, 2013

For moviegoers who can't fathom any situation worth $10.50 to witness everlasting love, steer clear of "About Time." But the drama offers something for almost everyone else ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 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 failed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 31, 2013

By the time you get home from the multiplex, it will be as if the whole thing never happened.

| Oct 31, 2013