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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 04 Jun 2008

This uninviting and pallid version, starring Guy Pearce, is intent on grinding all the sharp edges off the original story, in effect making…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 04 May 2008

The film, in its early going, also has a nice light humor about it, and an engaging, albeit tragic, love story…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 23 Sep 2007

The Time Machine is stupid -- too stupid for the impressive special effects or the competently directed action sequences to wash away the bitter…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 19 Sep 2007

The last 40 minutes descend further and further into nonsense, until we're in an underground grotto where Jeremy Irons plays a furry, cannibalistic…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 16 Jun 2007

In the new film, it's personal tragedy that provokes the journey, not social upheaval or even scientific curiosity -- which, predictably, makes…

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By Mike Clark (1,024) for USA Today (4,117) on 20 Jun 2006

Drab as it is, the movie is not impossible to endure -- in part because the concept has a timeless appeal…

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By Jonathan Foreman (365) for New York Post (6,650) on 23 Jul 2004

So tedious it's almost worth watching to see just how bad acting, inadequate direction and most important, a criminally crass and unimaginative…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 14 Feb 2004

It's a movie that robs the story of its politics and point and never really matches the charm of the '60s film…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 29 Jul 2003

A revisiting of George Pal's 1960 adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel…

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By Chris Gore (84) for Film Threat (5,156) on 01 Apr 2003

I’m getting fed up with classic films being remade or ruined by being turned into “Special Editions” that are less than special…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Feb 2003

Machine makes its look-to-the-future-not-the-past message as clear as a Grammy acceptance speech, but as an exploration of regret and the elusive…

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By Jack Mathews (1,044) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 20 Mar 2002

Wells' vision of the distant future is cartoonishly simplistic without the subtext of British class consciousness that informed the novel…

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