NEEDLE IN A TIMESTACK is based on a story by popular SF author Robert Silverberg. Though he has been a prolific author for the last 70 years, little of his work has been filmed (the major exception is THE BICENTENNIAL MAN, based on "The Positronic Man").

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 18, 2022

Needle in a Timestack is a convoluted, unconvincing romantic sci-fi drama, but it does raise some fascinating questions.

| Jan 6, 2022

Looking for a needle in a haystack is more fun than watching Needle in a Timestack. This excruciatingly dull movie tries to have a 'musical chairs' approach to romance, but it's ultimately a time-wasting bore with nothing to say.

| Jan 5, 2022

Time Travel. Romance and strong performances from Orlando Bloom, Freida Pinto, Cynthia Erivo and Leslie Odom, Jr. in this John Ridley directed sci-fi flick is interestingly thought provoking.

| Dec 23, 2021

The herky-jerky narrative structure makes one suspect that this one was done in by someone's misguided editing room tinkering.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 6, 2021

"Why are men?" seems like a provocative question, but it's an incredibly reasonable response to John Ridley's sci-fi romance Needle in a Timestack.

| Nov 5, 2021

What makes Needle in a Timestack unique is its care and compassion towards each character.

| Nov 1, 2021

The weirdest part about "Needle in a Timestack," more than the unnecessary focus on time-traveling liquid or Tommy's struggle to find genuine friends as a rich white guy, are its uber-conventional musings about love and relationships.

| Original Score: D+ | Oct 28, 2021

Writer-director John Ridley's time-travel romance underwhelms despite a promising premise, talented leads, and interesting source material.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 27, 2021

Ultimately, Needle in a Timestack is only occasionally rewarding.

| Oct 25, 2021

No need to waste precious brain cells on determining what's going on in Needle in a Timestack because most of it doesn't make any sense anyway.

| Original Score: D | Oct 22, 2021

Needle in a Timestack features a star-studded cast and a talented writer, but the blend of sci-fi and romance never quite lands, and the characters' relationships feel thinly sketched.

| Original Score: 7.5 | Oct 21, 2021

Save your money, and watch something intelligent and rational like Bill and Ted.

| Oct 21, 2021

The A-list cast gives this their all, but there's no sense of wonder, magic or passion to be found...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2021

It never feels like anybody is passionate about each other in this movie, and the time-traveling is really just a tool to play off these stories. So it doesn't really work on either level.

| Oct 19, 2021

It does have enough of an imaginative hold to keep it watchable despite the fact that everyone in it doesn't seem to be enjoying themselves the way they're supposed to be.

| Oct 19, 2021

Intelligent, engaging and thought-provoking...slow but the cast is terrific...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2021

Needle in a Timestack is stacked with a cast of excellent actors, with Leslie Odom Jr. working especially hard to make the disparate pieces come together, but even his efforts are wasted.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 19, 2021

Strange but never interesting, it's a film which exemplifies the importance of actions vs. words, as both love and lust are depicted as algorithms to be tinkered with rather than the human experiences they are.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 19, 2021

With a solid cast and writer/director John Ridley... at the helm, it ought to work. Instead, it's a tedious disappointment, and that's a shame.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 18, 2021