The film's central metaphor is so sublimely obvious it feels like it's been stolen from a forgotten Star Trek script.

| Aug 28, 2019

If you're just after popcorn thrills, then In Time is not a complete waste of time, but future generations will not remember it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2018

In Time is so crammed with provocative ideas it begins to feel over-crowded.

| Jun 20, 2013

The movie meanders in circles, frustratingly wasting its intriguing premise showcasing a story of Robin Hood meets Bonnie and Clyde-like heroic villains on the run that's as rudimentary as it is forgettable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 27, 2012

Clever and unsettling.

| Nov 10, 2011

Timberlake is fine but not as good as he was in The Social Network because he doesn't get the chances. It's a pity, but this sort of thing needs a brighter director.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2011

A playful caper that ticks along on the strength of its cast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2011

It's all just big-budget dress-up in a futurescape that reeks of phoniness.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 4, 2011

Attempts to be both thriller and political allegory but ultimately falls someway short of being either.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2011

If time's so valuable, why does Seyfried run everywhere in six-inch heels?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2011

Niccol's major problem is timing: action sequences and dialogue scenes lie flat on the screen, while his tendency to play around with pacing means that any tension quickly dissipates. Life's too short.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 1, 2011

Interesting ideas and howling anger at the 1 percent drive the first half, but the Bonnie and Clyde stylings of the second feel a little rushed and strangely out of sync.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2011

The film is beautifully shot in chilly blues and grays by cinematographer Roger Deakins, and Los Angeles locales are well chosen for futuristic effect. Most of the time, however, I found myself glancing at the clock on my own wrist.

| Original Score: C | Oct 31, 2011

Niccol's zippy direction, joined to a sleek, rich production design, keeps the movie spinning like a shiny toy.

| Oct 31, 2011

A movie so consistently flat-footed, with pauses between lines of dialogue so vast, that you begin to wonder if the whole thing might be a psychological experiment of some kind.

| Oct 28, 2011

Nothing more than a clumsily executed preach-a-thon.

| Original Score: D | Oct 28, 2011

Happily, there are some laughs en route. More happily yet, a few of them are even intentional.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 28, 2011

Niccol, whose excellent 1997 film Gattaca revealed a similar obsession with human genetics, is an above-average filmmaker who may simply lack the daredevil recklessness a project like this requires.

| Oct 28, 2011

Is it worth your time? Only if you have time to kill.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 28, 2011

Takes a great premise and totally trashes it with limp storytelling and astonishingly bad filmmaking.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 28, 2011