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

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

One of Ethan Hawke's strengths as an actor is his willingness to jump between arthouse fare and B-movie genre fodder.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2015

Like all time-travel stories, this inevitably trips on its own causal illogic - but not before it's offered you a taste of something genuinely rich and strange, and probably toxic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2015

A funny, affecting, twisted tale, which demands you pay close attention to every throwaway detail.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2015

The most interesting time-travel movie since Primer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2015

Predestination's pace is too slack, and the brothers are so painfully tentative as storytellers that the easily guessed big twist gets three separate reveals.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 13, 2015

A messy but affecting parable about fate, gender, and identity. And time, which combines the three.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 12, 2015

A brisk, twisty, and atmospheric science-fiction thriller that piques the imagination and the senses with the low-rent exuberance of fifties drive-in classics.

| Jan 12, 2015

A stylish sci-fi adventure anchored by strong performances from Ethan Hawke and Australian newcomer Sarah Snook.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 10, 2015

This is a deeply solipsistic movie, but how deep is something you'll need to find out for yourself.

| Jan 9, 2015

You won't be able to take your eyes off Sarah Snook, an Aussie actress who makes whatever sex she's playing almost irrelevant. You watch her. You hear her. You believe.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2015

Snook is exceptionally good as Jane/John, serving as the beating heart underneath the film's temporal gamesmanship.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 9, 2015

At the heart of "Predestination" ... are the two central performances by Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook that bring genuine emotional weight to a storyline that could have easily plunged into utter nonsense.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 9, 2015

Predestination is a hair-raising, emotionally resonant thriller that fleshes out Heinlein's minimalist conceptual piece with strong characterization and an absorbing story line about domestic terrorism and murder.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2015

The Spierig brothers have deftly fashioned an unpredictable thrill ride, and the joy is to fit together all its puzzle pieces.

| Jan 8, 2015

Despite its low budget and its lack of big stars, it's a pretty amazing piece of work.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 8, 2015

His temporal agent contains sly multitudes and could easily have become a gimmick, but Mr. Hawke brings enough pathos and soul to his performance ...

| Jan 8, 2015

Predestination is disorienting, but in a way that suggests narrative chaos rather than narrative control.

| Jan 8, 2015

Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook, who plays The Unmarried Mother, are nearly ideal casting for these characters. They're engagingly enigmatic-a requirement for playing mystery men-yet they also react to each other body and soul.

| Jan 8, 2015