A clever piece of entertainment that offers some amusing culture-clash gags scattered throughout a solid thriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2023

Time After Time is a delightful film offering an alternative version of a real persons life utilizing the staples of their fiction. The performances ... make this light-hearted romantic fantasy thriller one you will not soon forget.

| Mar 8, 2022

...a briskly-paced thriller that benefits substantially from its strong performances and proliferation of irresistible time-travel elements...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2021

Such a scrambling of fact, fiction and imagination in itself deserves back-patting and, for the most part, the rendering is as delightful as the basic idea.

| Sep 30, 2020

Time After Time is still a fun fish-out-of-water flick that deserves more attention than it has received in the thirty years following its release. But there's still plenty of time for that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2012

Meyer makes a fine directorial debut, pacing the film for optimal suspense despite some obvious holes in the script.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2007

A delightful, entertaining trifle of a film that shows both the possibilities and limitations of taking liberties with literature and history.

| Jun 5, 2007

Clever and well calculated.

| Jun 5, 2007

Underrated classic mixing H.G. Wells and Jack the Ripper. Stylish, even the music.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 6, 2007

After nearly two hours the tension has evaporated, and all that's left is a curdle of jokes and brutality.

| Jun 24, 2006

This cinematic oddity is nonetheless a true guilty pleasure.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 25, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2005

A movie that's as sweet as it is clever, and never so clever that it forgets to be entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 9, 2005

tense and gripping

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2005

Terrific little time-travel romantic thriller with three outstanding performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 11, 2004

Full of potential smarts, failed intrigue and a dated survey of the 20th century.

Full Review | Original Score: 62/100 | Mar 16, 2004

Time After Time is an inventive comedy-mystery.

| Jan 27, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2003

A wonderful concoction. H.G. Wells vs. Jack the Ripper, the time machine, it all works.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2003