The film is obviously low-budget but has a smart script and a real feeling for those who would like to turn back the clock. Its modesty on the whole becomes it, and Plaza is a real find.

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

his time-travel romcom wastes lead Aubrey Plaza and dithers until its geek-pandering finale.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 27, 2012

The independent sector of American cinema, you would think, would do better.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 27, 2012

Few films so gloriously live up to their potential.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2012

An endearingly oddball indie sci-fi.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2012

Plaza and Duplass are enormously watchable, and there's a sweet sadness in the movie's focus on lost dreams and missed chances, and the truism that we all long for a time machine every once in a while.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2012

How do you incorporate a science-fiction element in a low-budget indie production? For answers, see the engaging new comedy Safety Not Guaranteed...

Full Review | Nov 2, 2012

It is a strange and strangely appealing journey that this film takes.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2012

The film balances the extraordinary and ordinary with great aplomb, and Duplass and Plaza give beautifully judged performances.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2012

"Safety" can't sustain its own offbeat energy. By the end, even Aubrey Plaza would roll her eyes at it.

| Original Score: C | Jun 22, 2012

"Safety Not Guaranteed" is eccentric enough to get mistaken for an uplifting fantasy, but it's Plaza who belongs in the penthouse.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 21, 2012

Less of a philosophical argument and more of a character piece driven deep into the heart by Duplass and Plaza.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2012

A character-driven piece about regret and true partnership - our basic, primal need for someone to take the journey with us even if safety is not guaranteed.

| Original Score: 4.5/5.0 | Jun 15, 2012

Neatly, the script embarks on one journey while dangling the possibility of another: the prospect of taking a sudden leap from comic reality into the realm of pure imagination.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2012

"Safety Not Guaranteed" is most vibrant and vital at its edges, in the way that the characters interact with each other while waiting for something to happen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2012

It's brisk and assured and never begs the audience's indulgence. No time is wasted. The movie is, at every moment, either funny or pushing the story forward, or both.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 14, 2012

The film is modest but skillful and heartfelt, spiced just so by Plaza and company.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 14, 2012

Safety Not Guaranteed casts an enchanting spell from its opening scene.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 14, 2012

Expectedly funny but unexpectedly touching, too.

| Jun 14, 2012

A pleasantly ramshackle affair balanced uniquely between the crass and the sweet.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 14, 2012