Los cronocrímenes 2007

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Proof positive that a naked hottie and whiz-bang pacing can disguise gaping narrative cracks, Timecrimes makes sci-fi lemonade out of low-budget lemons. Read more

New York Magazine/Vulture: Its verve and smarts more than make up for its occasional lapses in technique and casting. Read more

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: A sci-fi thriller with no special effects, a cast of four and a single location used with Hitchcockian economy, Timecrimes boasts the kind of smart, resourceful filmmaking that champions ingenuity over spectacle. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: 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.' Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The director operates his metaphysical contraption with enough wit to jolt away your skepticism. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo's low-budget brain-drainer Timecrimes is only half as clever as it thinks and even less entertaining. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The modest satisfactions of Timecrimes come down to a protagonist divided against himself. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: The key here is to keep things moving without letting the logical (or illogical) complications weigh down the action, and [director] Vigalondo does this well. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Trippy viewing awaits, as long as you're not a stickler for logic. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Very cool. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Timecrimes 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. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: It begins slowly, but when it gets going, it rings a series of amusing, if not entirely unpredictable, changes on the theme 'what if you went back in time and changed things?' Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The idea isn't bad, and Vigalondo makes the pretzel logic of the situation lucid, but he doesn't have the chops to give the tale the suspense and humor it needs. Read more

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Jonathan Holland, Variety: The latest in a line of effective, low-budget genre items out of Spain, Nacho Vigalondo's feature debut shows that good cinematic time travelers can be done on a shoestring with the right script. Read more

Jim Ridley, Village Voice: Even though Vigalondo's obvious direction lingers over every carefully arranged tile in the toppling-domino plot, there's still some sinister amusement in watching them stack and fall. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It's not the first time a movie has played with the idea of a time traveler encountering an earlier version of himself, but the exceptionally gripping film takes the concept to a new level of devilish circularity. Read more