See You Yesterday is colorful and fun, but it also manages to achieve some critical themes, giving the film a different genre, almost.

| Original Score: 3.55 | Oct 25, 2024

A very different blend [of genres]... I think for the most part it's unsuccessful.

| Sep 29, 2021

This movie has a very attractive cast of talented young actors who go a long way towards making this downbeat story more palatable. It was also a treat to see the most famous time traveler of all in the film, Michael J. Fox.

| Original Score: B | Jan 31, 2021

See You Yesterday shows people, no matter what their age, that life is not about changing the past but how we move forward.

| Jul 12, 2020

As a debut feature from writer-director Stefon Bristol and co-writer Fredrica Bailey, See You Yesterday is an ambitious sci-fi in its own right, and a worthy entry into the canon of black representation.

| Original Score: B | Jan 8, 2020

[It] strikes the balance between the entertaining joy of cinema crafted by someone who clearly loves movies and the painful realities of unconscionable, systematized oppression.

| Jul 26, 2019

Welding a Black Lives Matter message onto a time-travel movie with a tone somewhere between Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Do the Right Thing makes this an ambitious flick.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 18, 2019

A heady mix of clever plotting, sharp street humour, phat reggae beats and an emotional gut punch to rival recent cinema releases Blackkklansman or Detroit.

| Jun 17, 2019

With impeccable, emotional acting from Smith and scenes that may be difficult for viewers to watch, See You Yesterday starts out feeling lighthearted, fun and real.

| Jun 10, 2019

Though the movie encounters some of the usual pitfalls of time-travel plots (predictability, muddled rules) and sports some hokey, eighties-style special effects, what it offers in terms of diversity and messaging is a treasure.

| May 29, 2019

Back to the Future meets urban scientific teens on Netflix is the bomb.com. It' a refreshing spin on an old classic time travel tale with a really cute cameo by Michael J. Fox. It's fun, fresh and relevant with subtle police shooting thematics

| May 26, 2019

The film's rumination on grief does not always pair seamlessly with its spitfire teen comedy half but Bristol's debut film is all the more gnarly and compelling for this lack of seamlessness.

| May 25, 2019

Teens travel back in time; violence, language.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2019

The film's ambiguous ending [is] frustrating but fitting.

| May 23, 2019

Kick back on a night when you're looking for both gravity and glee (emphasis on the gravity), and enjoy.

| Original Score: B- | May 23, 2019

It gives us a wonderful black female character, the message of both despair and hope, and a story that could easily be continued as a popular Netflix series.

| May 20, 2019

See You Yesterday is a film not to be taken at face value. It is a film that is multi-layered and crafted to deliver each layer in a timely and thought-provoking manner.

| May 20, 2019

See You Yesterday doesn't sacrifice the child-like wonder of adventure for a grounded story. For a film in this genre, the stakes are higher than ever before.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | May 20, 2019

An extremely promising concept is lent a disappointingly indifferent treatment in this low-fi, low-effort time travel romp.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 19, 2019

No matter the inspired cinematography or considered, authentic performances, these stories carry a weight of inevitability as they suck every particle of hope out of the air.

| May 18, 2019