“On more than one occasion, scenes just don’t seem to fit right, as if an editing-room scuffle had left some crucial connective tissue on the floor.” Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

“Like the Texas City killer’s plans, something’s gone terribly wrong.” Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

“Director Mann does a fine job in presenting a bleak, matter-of-fact police procedural TV pilot. Only problem is, Texas Killing Fields was not made for television." Staci Layne Wilson, Horror.com

“It’s a procedural without structure. It’s a mood piece with no definable mood. It’s a thriller without clear villains or even threats.” Brian Tallerico, HollywoodChicago.com

“Just uses a spooky atmosphere and fractured style to disguise the fact that it’s actually covering quite familiar territory.” Frank Swietek, One Guy’s Opinion

“In Time is the cinematic equivalent of the stoned dude at the party who comes up with one barely interesting ‘what if’ scenario, then proceeds to nudge us repeatedly until we express to them the extent to which they have blown our mind.” Simon Miraudo, Quickflix

“Despite a terrific concept that could make for an Inception for 2011, we get Logan’s Run meets Robin Hood. And not the good parts.” Scott Bowles, USA Today

“Time really is money, people. Invest in neither here.” Liz Braun, Jam! Movies

“More irritating for what it should have been than satisfying for what it is.” Andrea Chase, Killer Movie Reviews

“In Time starts out with one of the best sci-fi premises in recent memory, and then does nothing with it.” Joshua Tyler, Giant Freakin Robot

“A movie so consistently flat-footed, with pauses between lines of dialogue so vast, that you begin to wonder if the whole thing might be a psychological experiment of some kind.” Diana Stevens, Slate

“The movie is like a lady who can’t choose between two suitors: the campy and fun one, or the serious and cliché one.” Grae Drake, Movies.com

“There are some early comic moments that have you laughing along with the movie, but eventually the clashing tones and preposterousness just have you laughing [at it].” Mike Hale, New York Times

“We all love a steamy pile of frivolous nonsense now and then, but it has to move quickly or we lose interest, like a joke that stops being funny.” Eric D. Snider, Film.com

“Deprived of details, Megaton expects us to subsist on action alone, but it’s not enough to fill the void left by the absence of story.” Thomas Leupp, Hollywood.com

“Possibly worth seeing if you are 13.” Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice

“Megaton blows things up, demolishes a fruit market, and throws in some parkour foot-chases as if he’s completing a checklist.” Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

“The star’s dangerously low weight is only the start of its problems.” Rob Vaux, Mania.com

“Without the interior monologues that gave the novel’s characters more substance, it feels more like a perfume commercial than a story.” Nell Minow, Beliefnet

“This tear-jerking twaddle, adapted by David Nicholls from his 2009 bestseller, is nearly as bad as Anne Hathaway’s British accent, which is heading for infamy.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“It suffers from a casting error in one of the two leads and its director seems to have contemplated three or four different endings and then just thrown up her hands and decided to include all of them.” Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), St. Paul Pioneer Press

“The movie lumbers from one insufferable moment after another. But at least the title’s accurate: it seems like you’re sitting there for 24 hours.” Kimberly Gadette, Willamette Week

“In one scene, we are told a boyfriend of Anne Hathaway’s character left. At that point, I’m envious. How come he gets to leave and I have to stay?” Gary Wolcott,
Tri-City Herald

“Larry Crowne has Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts and a good premise and a colorful supporting cast, but what it doesn’t have is a reason for existing.” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“Larry Crowne is made precisely for people like Larry Crowne.” Stephen Himes, Film Snobs

“Words like ‘gentle’ and ‘sweet’ were undoubtedly tossed around by the folks who made Larry Crowne. I wonder if they ever got around to ‘boring?’” Chris Hewitt, St. Paul Pioneer Press

“Larry Crowne makes losing your job, your car and your house look like the greatest thing to happen to a middle-aged man.” Christian Toto, What Would Toto Watch

“Next semester, the stars should drop Speech 217 and enroll in Chemistry 101—they dearly need some.” Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

“This is like a well-worn vintage dress: comfortable but a little threadbare.” Nigel Floyd, Time Out

“Marveling at its grotesque gigantism doesn’t make this two-and-a-half-hour-long movie any less dull.” Dana Stevens, Slate

“In the future, maybe Bay should abandon using a screenwriter altogether and just fill up 90 minutes with disconnected images of robo-carnage.” James Berardinelli, Reelviews

“Being able to go to the movies and not think is fine—but that’s different from going to a movie that assumes you can’t think.” Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

“There’s no doubt it could have been much worse. It could have been Transformers 2.” Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express

“Mindless escapist fare designed with the attention-deficit millennials in mind.” Kam Williams, Newsblaze