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  Review by MichaelEternity ★★★

  Actress/writer and sometimes director (but not here) Brea Grant is building a cool reputation for these low-budget high-concept genre works. Here's another one that's fairly short and probably cost less than even the submission fee for a film getting into Sundance, but has everything it needs in a creative idea, an approachable tone, and sufficient style. The director, Jason Richard Miller, has a background working more than once with Adam Green, doing the visual effects for other small yet spirited horror/sci-fi like Rebekah McKendry's "Glorious", that retro-'80s fever dream "Beyond the Gates", and more, has his own couple of pictures pre-dating this ("Unidentified" and "Bloodhound") that also look like slightly expanded twisted-fun short films but I haven't gotten around to…

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  Review by Joel Hilke ★★½

  Madelines is about a married couple working on time travel in their backyard shed. When the wife - Madeline - gets tipsy and decides on human trials, a bug in her code results in one Madeline appearing in their back yard each day. The only way to prevent multiple Madelines in the time line is, of course, to murder the copies as they show up.

  This is a comedy. And it's an interesting low budget sci-fi time travel movie. But it's premise results in a sense of humor that's dark and bloody... but also whimsical? It's an odd one that won't appeal to everyone.

  It doesn't always work and probably runs too long (and it's only 80 minutes) but there's…

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  Review by tyreehoffman ★★½

  Try as they might, this still doesn’t make me afraid of the “dangers” of time travel.

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  Review by Diego Rocke ★★

  Es en sí un videohome, pero lo entiendo porque se ve que se hizo hace varios años, sin nulo o el más mínimo presupuesto. Siempre me gusta ver algo donde salga Brea Grant y el concepto aquí con lo que hay es interesante porque sí quitamos el concepto de la ciencia ficción queda algo en la relación de pareja e investigación, apoyo y ese tipo de cosas. De lo demás pues todo se le puede criticar, ósea los efectos están muy feos y la edición es a veces de risa, pero nuevamente, es parte del hecho de que se nota que no había dinero y se hizo con lo que se pudo.

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  Review by Matt ★★

  Time travel silliness done on a shoestring and often with tongue firmly in cheek as it lovingly mocks the genre and plays with the tropes. The writing's poor though and it ties itself in knots that are too tight, meaning by the end there's more a feeling of relief that it's over than any particular desire to rewatch it.

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  Review by SweeneyTom ★★★

  Fun little time travel horror comedy about a couple "having to" kill one of themselves every few hours, but it's more complicated than that of course. Suffers from being a bit too long (still under ninety minutes though!) and trying to have multiple endings which undermine its effect/impact (ending a minute earlier probably would have been enough for me to bump it up a star)

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  Review by SeanRiggen ★★ 3

  I know time travel can’t make sense or it would be possible, but this had too many plot holes. The main one is they were smart enough to figure out time travel but weren’t smart enough to know there’s no possible way to get rid of 3,600 bodies.
   Whatever, it’s not bad for a low budget comedy if you can suspend the disbelief.

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  Review by joshrowley ★★

  Clever; intriguing; low-budget; rough; short; slight; unscary.

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  Review by Rui Ozpinhead ★★½

  Well, it could have been worse. It could have been Karens.
  Now that I think about it, that could have worked better for comedy.

  There's something here, but it needed to undergo a few more drafts, better acting and direction, and...everything. In this state, it's not good.

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  Review by Channel Donstar ★★★

  Fun time travel flick (aren't they all?).

  In this one the couple working on the time machine incounters a time loop, which creates wife copy's arriving every day that must be killed off by the husband. Of course things get really out of hand.

  A fun low budget film that has a clever premise. Worth a watch!

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  Review by Brandon Williams ★★

  Fun for a zero budget SF flick. I do think there was untapped potential. Guessing they might have had some of the same ideas though and just been budget and time restrained. Also awesome they got Richard Riehle to hop in for a few scenes. Always a plus.

  My main gripe was a script choice that the lead would have rushed into the test so nonchalantly after Derek. Not really believable. Same with the mistake itself. While it sets up the story, there's better ways to get to the same point. With a few script tweaks, this could be 10x better. I have a fun idea for an alternate ending. Also drop the "horror" and just try comedy with the…

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  Review by Derek Johnson ★★★

  A good premise, with a strong lead, though it doesn’t quite reach its own ambitions.