Frequency 2000

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Features plenty of soft-focus, picture-perfect, father-and-son baseball scenes, an enormous amount of plot, and not quite enough of anything else. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Well-navigated and ultimately moving. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: What makes Frequency work despite is shamelessness is the surreal aura that imbues almost every scene with a sense of heightened feeling. Read more

Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: Quaid's buoyant earnestness complements the stunning, low-key performance by Caviezel, whose close-ups give new meaning to the idea that still waters run deep. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Frequency submits itself for our approval as a solid thriller, if not necessarily a timeless one. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Not only does the film benefit from that 'what if?' fascination of being able to change fate, but it allows Quaid and Caviezel to do some effective emotional button-pushing without pushing their luck. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Frequency takes a standard sci-fi stratagem and runs with it. Read more

Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: Why gripe about a few minor inconsistencies? Just relax and enjoy the show. Read more

Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: Frequency grabs you in the first few seconds and never lets go. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Frequency may be the first time travel fantasy to move grown fellows with 401(k) accounts to tears. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Movies sometimes end up looking like a head-on collision between opposing impulses. Frequency is that kind of movie. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Has so little faith in its Twilight Zone-ish yarn that it resorts to a pulpy serial-killer subplot to juice the mumbo-jumbo. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The only way this Twilight Zone-wannabe movie works is that if, after buying into the premise, you turn off your mind, suspending all rational thought processes. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There may be holes and inconsistencies in the plot ... [a]nd I don't much care, anyway, because the underlying idea is so appealing. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A fairly wonderful movie about fathers and sons and the mystery of time. Read more

Nick Funnell, Time Out: This ambitious but frustrating timeshift thriller never quite manages to jam together two distinct stories. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: There is enough that's off-center and just downright different in the film to keep one's antenna up. Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: The time-travel thriller Frequency comes on like a sensitive-jock older brother to the cutely paranormal alt-destiny reveries Sliding Doors and Me Myself I. Read more