It’s a fascinating investigation into the major science-fiction theme of time travel and the sometimes mindbending possibilities therein.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 12, 2022

This twisting, turning, time-travelling thriller about the ability to change the course of destiny will leave you pondering long after the credits have rolled.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2021

Challenges the ultimate impossibility with themes of existence, procreation, choices, destiny, and whether the end justifies the means...a 360-degree head scratcher. And the word "360-degree" will have a new meaning when you realize the full story.

| Nov 3, 2020

Never what you expect, Predestination can become something of a narrative jumble, but it's always compelling to watch, and the landscape continually shifts beneath your feet.

| Original Score: B | Jul 7, 2020

Perhaps more ambitious than its means, it's a film that manages to intrigue and engross with a narrative that virtually creates the odor of the musty, yellowed pages of the writing style it's been borrowed from.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2019

Forget four dimensions; Predestination struggles to break out of two.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 16, 2019

...a notably imaginative film noir that craftily elevates the genre into an alluring confection. Dark, moody and visibly challenging, Predestination gleefully plots and twists its way into a hearty submission of inspired Science Fiction contemplation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2018

In a way, Snook is the heart of Predestination... and by the time the film ends, you'll realize it is a strong and beautiful one.

| Oct 10, 2018

This yarn - based on sci-fi legend Robert Heinlein's short story All You Zombies - is never less than intriguing, even if it does threaten to unravel at the slightest tug on a thread of loose logic.

| Aug 21, 2018

Very smart writing and editing, and a rare film to get time travel right.

| Aug 21, 2018

For a faithful adaptation of a short story, the film is packed with plot twists and narrative surprises and the challenge faced by the Spierig Brothers is obscuring details that would give away the twists without making it obvious.

| Dec 16, 2017

This is cerebral sci-fi with a strong emotional undertow, largely thanks to Snook, who gives a heart-tugging performance as the gender-addled person of mystery.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2017

Trippy sci-fi thriller.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 9, 2016

A largely faithful adaptation of a 1958 Robert A. Heinlein short story, Michael and Peter Spierig's Predestination is a time-travel yarn that worked fine as a 13-page read, but as a film the time-bendy elements come across as sub-Primer at best.

| Jan 2, 2016

Hawks and Snook's performances pack a surprising emotional punch, and even if you spot the film's big twist coming you will still want to watch it all over again to spot all the deftly placed clues.

| Apr 24, 2015

Sarah Snook gives an immaculate, wholly-formed Star Is Born performance of the first order.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 1, 2015

Perhaps the best adaptation to date of a story written by science fiction legend Robert A. Heinlein. This is a very complex story and it is handled well by The Spierig Brothers, who co-wrote and co-directed the film.

| Original Score: B | Feb 28, 2015

... packs a powerful emotional punch thanks to its sensitive treatment of emotive themes and an incredible, multi-layered performance from Sarah Snook.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2015

Had this been any more sincere or stony-faced it simply wouldn't work, instead thriving in the frivolity of it all.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2015

The film leaps into a dizzy abyss of temporal paradoxes, made all the dizzier by its transgender premise - a modern Tiresias myth plaited into a Möbius strip.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2015