
Hector is an ordinary man who's moving to a new house with his wife. One evening, while he's looking through his binoculars, he sees a naked girl in the woods. He decides to go there just to find that same girl laying on a rock. Suddenly, a man with a pink bandage covering his face, stabs Hector in his arm with scissors...... (Full plot summary below)
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Hector is an ordinary man who's moving to a new house with his wife. One evening, while he's looking through his binoculars, he sees a naked girl in the woods. He decides to go there just to find that same girl laying on a rock. Suddenly, a man with a pink bandage covering his face, stabs Hector in his arm with scissors...
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| San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoOverall, it's a nice melding of sci-fi and a crime story. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoAccording to rumors swirling on the Internet, an English-language remake is already in the works, possibly directed by David Cronenberg. |
| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayYet while it isn't that hard to stay a step or two ahead of Timecrimes, the movie is still a nifty little genre piece, an old-fashioned science-fiction mind-game with a healthy dollop of "Oh, the irony." |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisVigalondo is only partially capable of building suspense (the film's latter stages contain one knot too many); his achievement owes more to his imagination than his pop craftsmanship. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovTimecrimes is a tremendously entertaining bit of Kafka that whirlpools down into "The Twilight Zone." |
| Film ThreatMerle BertrandWhen done well, they are scintillating cinematic brain teasers, and Timecrimes is one of the best time travel films to come along in, er, quite some time. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertTimecrimes is like a temporal chess game with nudity, voyeurism and violence, which makes it more boring than most chess games but less boring than a lot of movies. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsTimecrimes doesn't end as well as it begins. Then again, writer-director Nacho Vigalondo deliberately fudges the beginning and endpoints of his premise, which involves one of those nutty causal loops so dear to writers and consumers of science fiction. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerThere's a dark and demented little psychodrama of self-inflicted madness beneath the narrative contrivances. Vigalondo's direction makes it work more like a waking nightmare than a genuine experience, and he gives it the quality of madness. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe Spanish writer and director Nacho Vigalondo has audacity to spare. Constructing a looping, economical plot and directing like a fire marshal in a flaming building, he conjures urgency and disorientation from the thinnest of air. |