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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90VarietyVarietyA charming, witty, passionate romantic drama about a love transcending space and time, Somewhere In Time is an old-fashioned film in the best sense of that term. Which means it's carefully crafted, civilized in its sensibilities, and interested more in characterization than in shock effects.
- 63TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineJeannot Szwarc does well in the director's chair, and Jean-Pierre Dorleac deserves special commendation for his costumes. But Seymour is given too little to do, and Reeve does too much.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe whole movie is so solemn, so worshipful toward its theme, that it's finally just silly.
- 50Boston GlobeBoston GlobeSomewhere in Time is a glossy, flossy and intermittently interesting piece of kitsch which, with more sensitive craftsmanship, could have been one of the more dazzling screen romances of the year. It's too bad that it's held down by its more overt commercial impulses. [7 Oct 1980, p.1]
- 30The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyThe screenplay is priceless (funny) and it's Mr. Reeve who sets the film's tone. Unfortunately, his unshadowed good looks, granite profile, bright naivete and eagerness to please - the qualities that made him such an ideal Superman - look absurd here.
- 12The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe manner in which the writer, Richard Matheson, and Jeannot Szwarc, in his glory days the director of Jaws II, conspire to tell the story should not only render the audience tearless, but speechless as well. [11 Oct 1980, p.E7]
- 10Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrDirector Jeannot Szwarc strains hard for spectacular visual effects, though he's barely able to compose a competent close-up.