| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

While I enjoyed the film a great deal, I honestly wonder if there'd be this amount of hoopla if the picture, say, starred a yamhead like Val Kilmer and was set in New Jersey.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Aug 13, 2009

The key here is to keep things moving without letting the logical (or illogical) complications weigh down the action, and [director] Vigalondo does this well.

| Original Score: B | Mar 13, 2009

An enterprising Spanish time-travel thriller, that's light on DeLoreans and lightning bolts, but heavy on fiendish cross-currents of temporal interaction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 6, 2009

Fiendishly convoluted and stylishly crafted, Time Crime is a low-budget sci-fi thriller from Spain that ably demonstrates the value of a neat idea, cleverly executed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2009

The director operates his metaphysical contraption with enough wit to jolt away your skepticism.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 22, 2009

Timecrimes is a tremendously entertaining bit of Kafka that whirlpools down into The Twilight Zone.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 16, 2009

Always entertaining, weird, funny, and consistently surprising.

| Jan 13, 2009

The modest satisfactions of Timecrimes come down to a protagonist divided against himself.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 8, 2009

Timecrimes is like a temporal chess game with nudity, voyeurism and violence, which makes it more boring than most chess games but less boring than a lot of movies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 8, 2009

It begins slowly, but when it gets going, it rings a series of amusing, if not entirely unpredictable, changes on the theme 'what if you went back in time and changed things?'

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2008

A sci-fi thriller with no special effects, a cast of four and a single location used with Hitchcockian economy, Timecrimes boasts the kind of smart, resourceful filmmaking that champions ingenuity over spectacle.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2008

It's not the first time a movie has played with the idea of a time traveler encountering an earlier version of himself, but the exceptionally gripping film takes the concept to a new level of devilish circularity.

| Dec 18, 2008

Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo's low-budget brain-drainer Timecrimes is only half as clever as it thinks and even less entertaining.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 12, 2008

Trippy viewing awaits, as long as you're not a stickler for logic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 12, 2008

Proof positive that a naked hottie and whiz-bang pacing can disguise gaping narrative cracks, Timecrimes makes sci-fi lemonade out of low-budget lemons.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 12, 2008

Undeniably easy to watch, the film still isn't very fulfilling, the aftertaste left by the over-familiar finale one I just didn't like.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 11, 2008

While it isn't that hard to stay a step or two ahead of Timecrimes, the movie is still a nifty little genre piece, an old-fashioned science-fiction mind-game with a healthy dollop of 'Oh, the irony.'

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 11, 2008

By the end, details fall into place with a minimum amount of exposition or explicit explanation, making it the best kind of action movie -- the kind that's actually about action.

| Dec 10, 2008