The Guardian
In the end, the tasty nuggets of fun drown in all the soupy seriousness, but this time travel is sometimes an interesting ride.
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Clare (Rachel McAdams) has been in love with Henry (Eric Bana) her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: because Henry is a cheeky time traveler - cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through the years with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, and never knowing when they will be reunited, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her true love
2009Rating: M, contains violence107 minsUSA
DramaScience FictionRomance
- Director:
- Robert Schwentke ('Flightplan')
- Writer:
- Bruce Joel Rubin
- Cast:
- Rachel McAdamsEric BanaRon LivingstonBrooklynn ProulxArliss HowardStephen Tobolowsky
The Time Traveler's Wife | Reviews
38%159 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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A.V. Club
(It) comes across like a poor high-school stage version: sincere and kind of sweet, but endlessly clumsy.
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Time Out
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.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Together (McAdams and Bana) achieve an intimacy which does its best to distract you from the flaws in the script, which is a mess.
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Rolling Stone
I'd watch the vibrant Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in anything, but The Time Traveler's Wife is pushing it.
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Roger Ebert
The warmth of the actors makes it surprisingly tender, considering the premise that is blatantly absurd. If you allow yourself to think for one moment of the paradoxes, contradictions and logical difficulties involved, you will be lost. The movie supports no objective thought.
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New Zealand Herald
The Time Traveller's Wife may not be particularly intelligent but it delivers some loveable characters, who should deliver the warm fuzzies, if not tears.
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Hollywood Reporter
German-born director Robert Schwentke ("Flightplan") keep things moving briskly enough so that the leaps in time mostly obscure the leaps in logic.
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Empire Magazine
Competent and well-cast, but it crams too much into the runtime and loses the elegance of the novel.
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The Time Traveler's Wife is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon Rentals.