It's far too breezy to be taken seriously and way too creepy to ever allow an audience to surrender to the romance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

But I should say, if you take out the part about the dumb premise, the acting is quite good--it almost makes you forget you're watching the big screen version of the tv show "Quantum Leap."

| Original Score: C- | Sep 12, 2017

The Time Traveler's Wife is a chick flick all around, and fans of the chick flick genre are going to eat this movie up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2012

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

That the actors can pull off such Oprah-friendly, sci-fi-inflected sap and keep straight faces is the most fantastic thing about this loopy love story.

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

The movie also introduces the concept of time-traveling fetuses, yet we're never treated to this in any visual way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2011

As it stands, The Time Traveler's Wife is decent evening's entertainment with an intriguing enough premise and some strong heart tugging to keep the women happy and the men from getting too bored.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Mar 21, 2011

A great leading couple and an interesting concept make The Time Traveler's Wife a romance worth remembering for its normality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2010

It's beautifully crafted and endearingly old-fashioned all the way; an alluring soap opera for those who like to dive into the deep end of the syrup pool.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 2, 2010

You can constantly feel The Time Traveler's Wife reaching for emotional depth, yet it never gets there.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 10, 2010

With a dash of Benjamin Button and Back to the Future, this existential travelogue with supersized erotic separation anxiety issues, may leave viewers not in the mood for long distance time travel, simply with a case of lingering jet lag.

| Feb 6, 2010

I kept doing what every fantasy should never allow one to do--question it every step of the way.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 3, 2010

While the script could have done more to exploit Bana's sense of humour, it does profit from his directness. There are no false heroics.

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

Sure to hit the spot for anyone with an appetite for sweet, unselfconscious romantic fantasy.

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

Bana and McAdams do share a pleasant chemistry, but can never quite trump the dull and earnest nature of the material they are working with here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2009

This is undoubtedly Bana's best American performance and you can genuinely believe in Bana and McAdams as lovers who give the story its emotion.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 5, 2009

I don't think the book is a masterpiece but the film is just plain disappointing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2009

Without any notion of what type of film it wants to be, The Time Traveller's Wife is neither funny nor charming, moving nor romantic.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 4, 2009

The Time Traveller's Wife makes for an enjoyable enough movie experience, if all you are after is a few tears, a nice romance and a frequently naked Eric Bana; but viewers unfamiliar with the novel might be left wondering what all the fuss was about.

| Nov 3, 2009

It's a complex and often confusing story as the two key characters weave in and out of different time zones, but somehow it works; no doubt due to terrific performances by Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana

| Oct 31, 2009