Metacritic reviews

Smart, suspenseful, satisfyingly unpredictable.

A suspenseful, fascinating movie that milks the premise for all it's worth.

The star, though, is the script, a rare enough occurrence in Hollywood that it merits special note.

Emmerich's screenplay gains emotional punch from its sincere concern for family values, but science-fiction fans may be disappointed by the limited exploration of its fascinating time-travel premise.

A very complicated movie. It is also pretty wonderful.

Enough originality and emotional weight to keep you engrossed even when it lapses into some pretty standard moves at the end.

An enjoyably complex sci-fi suspense thriller.

Confirming the moral of a thousand "Twilight Zone" episodes: Don't play with time.

An oddly schizophrenic fantasy thriller that ultimately succumbs to a fatal case of sentimentality.

As an audience member, you end up feeling like a sucker for even having tolerated that sickly sweet notion about a father, a son, and their silly radio.