In Time (2011)

All Critics (156) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (56) | Rotten (101) | DVD (2)

Niccol's 'In Time': Prescient allegory of urgent timeliness about the current economic woes.

November 30, 2011 Full Review

Joe Baltake

Passionate Moviegoer

Top Critic

Clever and unsettling.

November 10, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Niccol's major problem is timing: action sequences and dialogue scenes lie flat on the screen, while his tendency to play around with pacing means that any tension quickly dissipates. Life's too short.

November 1, 2011 Full Review

Tom Huddleston

Time Out

Top Critic

The film is beautifully shot in chilly blues and grays by cinematographer Roger Deakins, and Los Angeles locales are well chosen for futuristic effect. Most of the time, however, I found myself glancing at the clock on my own wrist.

October 31, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

Niccol's zippy direction, joined to a sleek, rich production design, keeps the movie spinning like a shiny toy.

October 31, 2011 Full Review | Comments (6)

Bruce Diones

New Yorker

Top Critic

A movie so consistently flat-footed, with pauses between lines of dialogue so vast, that you begin to wonder if the whole thing might be a psychological experiment of some kind.

October 28, 2011 Full Review | Comments (9)

Dana Stevens

Slate

Top Critic

One long, extended chase sequence interspersed with awkward flirting.

March 4, 2013 Full Review

Tom Glasson

Concrete Playground

Even with its thoughtful nods to "Bonnie & Clyde" and "Les Miserables," "In time" never delivers that transcendent "Blade Runner" moment, and never rises above cult classic to simple classic.

December 29, 2012 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

There's a lot to like about In Time, but it misses the mark for being an overly memorable experience and ends up being just an adequate sci-fi flick.

September 22, 2012 Full Review

Benjo Colautti

We Got This Covered

"In Time" gets points for putting forth an interesting concept, but because of Niccol's inability to utilize that concept, we get a film that ends up going nowhere.

September 18, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

It's an interesting set-up and a nicely realised conceit, but when you don't care about your protagonist, it might as well be a half-scribbled idea in a nerd's notebook.

September 13, 2012 Full Review

Matt Looker

TheShiznit.co.uk

Worry, worry and watch the clock, for 'In Time' wastes what time you've got.

April 12, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Betty Jo Tucker

ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Andrew Niccol's dystopia never really feels like anything other than a depthless, stylish sleek surface.

February 27, 2012 Full Review

Ian Berriman

SFX Magazine

Starts out great, almost like a pseudo sequel to Niccol's other sci-fi drama Gattaca, but slowly unravels into a mindless chase picture that never really captures any real depth or meaning.

February 12, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

Nothing remarkable about this futuristic adventure that reminds me a bit of "Logan's Run." Paul Chambers, CNN.

February 9, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Paul Chambers

CNNRadio

Andrew Niccol continues to be the go-to guy for using smartly executed science-fiction/fantasy concepts in the service of expressing ideas rather than bang-up action.

February 2, 2012 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

The movie doesn't ask much of them, acting-wise, as it devolves into a chase film and doesn't spent any time examining all the thorny moral quandaries that it brings up.

January 30, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Eric Melin

Scene-Stealers.com

Prophetically arriving at about the same time as the Occupy Wall Street protests, the film couldn't be more relevant; unfortunately, it's also ham-handed.

January 23, 2012 Full Review

John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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December 26, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

Timberlake's charisma can't carry this but it's hard to think of anyone who could.

December 7, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Steve Newall

Flicks.co.nz

Like a 99 Percenter in the making, Will is stunned to hear from Henry that -- oh my god! -- the system of doling out time is rigged.

December 7, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters

Nobody should waste a minute of their life on this baloney.

November 18, 2011 Full Review | Comments (12)

Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

Niccol's metaphor gets silly fast.

November 17, 2011 Full Review

Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

This Bonnie and Clyde couldn't have less on screen chemistry if Clyde was the orangutan from Every Which Way but Loose.

November 13, 2011 Full Review

Ed Whitfield

The Ooh Tray

This alternate world's hollowness drains the movie, blanching the noir. Cheesy, corny moments pop up throughout. Grinds its potential down into a clockwork chase movie.

November 11, 2011 Full Review

Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

• 1. Sylvia Weis: We can't just keep driving around in this car. It's a cop car.
  2. Will Salas: So let's make an arrest.
  – Submitted by Carlo Roy R (5 months ago)
• 1. Sylvia Weis: I didn't mean to shoot him, I wanted to scare him.
  2. Will Salas: I think you did both.
  – Submitted by Carlo Roy R (5 months ago)
• 1. Sylvia Weis: Is it stealing if it's already stolen?
  – Submitted by Carlo Roy R (5 months ago)
• 1. Will Salas: Live forever or die trying.
  – Submitted by Lydia Gonzalez M (11 months ago)
• 1. Will Salas: COME ON! HELP YOURSELVES!
  – Submitted by Baurushan J (15 months ago)
• 1. Sylvia Weis: We'll see if we can get back some of that time.
  – Submitted by Baurushan J (15 months ago)

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