About Time
About Time
At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think.
Razorbitz reviewedFebruary 22, 2025
About Time is the warmth of a hug on celluloid.
My partner and I went in with no expectations and came away adoring this film. A love story filled with whimsy that in a brilliant stroke handles time travel in much the same way it handles the romance: with deftness, awareness, and charm. There are so many points that other attempts at a similar idea have failed, or fell into a more crass examination of what unlimited resets can do to morality. Not so here: a film that worries not the exact sciences as to the why, but in so doing gives a poignant examination on the value of failure, the value of simply being. I would say more, but despite never hearing of this film and always being fascinated in how (often poorly) time travel is handled in narratives, this is one of the best. I often despise rom-coms for their saccharine sentimentality, but here I only found myself swept up in the magic in a way that can only ever be captured that once, with no expectations. Reading a review as gushing like this, I might have set the bar too high!
The simple magic of earnest cinema; About Time is too overlooked and sits now as an all time favorite in my collection. Please give it a watch sometime.