About Time (2013)

Writer/director Richard Curtis, screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral andNotting Hill, and director of Love Actually, has taken the teeth out of time travel. It’s not that the script should give in to the standard time traveler plots — historical wrongs to right, fortunes to amass or lives to save — but despite Curtis’ usual infusion of English charm, About Time is humdrum. Curtis screws around too long with inconsequential romantic comedy bits, wearing down both novelty and goodwill, and getting to the existential core too late. Read the rest of the review here.