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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 2

  Man time travel is cool but it seems SO stressful

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  Review by Boy Roarbison [fka Nag Champion] ★★★★½ 17

  Near perfect. One of the best time-travel films I've seen, in part because of the juxtaposition of its intricate script & the simplicity of its setting. You would never guess that traveling only mere hours back in time would serve for such a compelling narrative, but "Timecrimes" pulls it off with brilliant pacing and a plot woven with intelligent twists, not ones that pander to its audience or insult their intelligence. Karra Elejalde [Hector] delivers a tremendously compelling lead performance[s], and is anchored by a keen supporting role from the film's director Nacho Vigalondo as a scientist in the wrong place at the wrong time[s]. For my money, I have trouble deciding which low-budget time-travel feature is better, "Timecrimes" or "Primer". And that is high praise in and of itself.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ 2

  Well that was cool, inventive, and moody!

  I can't believe I've never heard of this before.

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  Review by Ethan Colburn ★★★½ 4

  It's like if the last third of Prisoner of Azkaban were an indie Spanish movie.

  An intriguing concept and a fun and layered story. Timecrimes is an impressively constructed film, making Christopher Nolan insanely jealous.

  My biggest criticism of the movie is the character motivations, I feel like it didn't always make sense. I don't quite know why he never tried to break with the natural flow of events, I feel like he would have tried that at least once rather than taking things for granted. Same goes with his choices in the first iteration of the story, it seems like he had opportunities to break with what people expected him to do.

  Very glad I watched this, thank you Siegel!

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  Review by Peaceful Stoner ★★★★½ 11

  Simple.Ingenius.Brilliant.

  Timecrimes brings to the table the well-worn genre of the time travel enigma in such an engaging, refreshing and minimalistic fashion that I was riveted throughout the experience. The plot is woven with great intricacy and Nacho Vigalondo does a great job in putting together the pieces of the puzzle in such a manner that the level of intrigue never diminishes instead it is always on rise and is left on a high in the end. The film does itself some great good by not explaining things too much as to leave the audiences with nothing to chew on. The relatively open ending and the confusion that the lead character has with the concept makes the film more accessible…

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  Review by LinusMxx ★★★★ 3

  "We've seen each other before, right?"

  Nacho Vigalondo's Timecrimes is a low-budget Spanish time travel film that cleverly used its familiar sci-fi trope to bring forth something terrifying, darkly funny, peculiar, smart, and tragic. Unlike most time travel films, this one is pretty easy enough to follow - and that's a good thing!

  On the surface, this seems like your typical time-travel paradox film. But if you look and analyze it deeply, you'll find out that Nacho Vigalondo has created a film that can also work as an allegory on adultery/infidelity.

  The film opens with Hector, a married man, who is spying on a beautiful woman undressing in the woods near his property. Intrigue, he follows her into the woods.…

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  Review by Marianna Neal ★★★★ 2

  Me watching this movie: pfft, I figured this twist out right away! ... Oh wait, that's not the point...

  Seriously though, what a good time travel thriller! Gets more and more interesting as the movie progresses and develops the concept.

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  Review by adambolt ★★★★

  turns out the secret to time travel was cum all along

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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★½ 2

  ”Can’t I just go home and explain?”
  “It would be the end of your life as you know it.”

  Here’s a nifty low-budget time-travel story about the cascading consequences of even the smallest jump in time. It does a great job of sucking you in and allowing you to experience the entire journey through the main character’s eyes...and binoculars. It also creates several mysteries and solves them all in a satisfying way, including the well done finale.

  I love time travel-movies and I’m always amazed at how they manage to break my brain every time.

  
  "Ohh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything? "
  -The Oracle

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  Review by Mario Melendez ★★★★ 3

  Now I understand why so many friends and acquaintances were talking about this film directed by Nacho Vigalondo and urged me to watch it with a lot of enthusiasm.

  Timecrimes handles two issues that I love in films about time travel and they are rarely addressed with such impetuosity:

  1. It makes a point of showing how parables can really exist.
  2. Every action has a why and maybe things happen for a reason after all, regardless of its purpose.

  The beginning of the film can be its weakest point, and its first minutes are looking for a very intriguing plot, some forced twists, almost shoehorned, that we've seen in other films before, but as the story progresses, that attention…

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  Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★ 6

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  "We still have a while before it starts raining"

  This is ScreeningNotes 2. I've come back from the future to warn you that ScreeningNotes 1 is totally going to spoil this movie for you. For anyone who hasn't seen the movie and clicked past the warning anyway, here's a spoiler-free review: if you liked the lo-fi time travel aesthetic of Primer then go watch this. It's good, I promise. Now get out of here before it's too late!

  I'm no good at putting together complex storylines. So for me at least, one of the most important things about a movie like this is that, whether it's easy to follow or not, watching the puzzle pieces fall into place ought to…

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  Review by Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti" ★★★★ 6

  "Timecrimes" is a 2007 science fiction film directed by Nacho Vigalondo. A product of Spain, the film specifically plays into time travel elements with a unique twist of embodying a thematic thriller/horror element, seemingly involving a serial killer of sorts at face value. Director Vigalondo also plays one of the main supporting roles in the film, as it is smaller film with a limited number of cast within. That actually plays to the film's strength, as it is an isolated, and almost suffocating film with continual twists and turns.

  To be fair with this explanation of the short review, this is very much a film to know as minimal as possible going in, really only within the build that there…