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• "This is the worst film of the week, a dire British comedy, to which the only honest response is to soil and then set fire to the Union flag in the foyer of your local cinema. (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"  Peter Bradshaw : The Guardian
• "Refreshingly, director Carrivick's feature debut is both dark, compelling and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny." Philip Wilding : Empire
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• "One or two amusing moments, but not sustainable for 90 minutes." Anthony Quinn : The Independent

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You don't have to jump through time to check out some of the best time travel movies ever made. According to Rotten Tomatoes, they're already here.

Time Travel is a tricky tool in fiction. Step on a butterfly, and what happens to the future? Just because it's tricky doesn't mean it's not popular, both film, television, and prose have long used time travel to the great delight of fans. We're not here to argue the specifics, or the real-world possibilities and different styles often provided for audience enjoyment.

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We're only going to highlight some of the most fun and successful films that have, as part of their plot, used time travel in one way or another to tell a great story. Here are the ten best according to Rotten Tomatoes .

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure - 79%

One of the most successful time travel films of all time worked particularly well because it was a comedy. Who didn't laugh watching two airheads (including superstar Keanu Reeves ) as they traveled back through time to visit the many historical figures they'd been learning about—and failing to remember—in school. In Bill and Ted ,  the travel is all in service to keeping the duo's band together, as they need to get their grades up to do so. Besides the laughs, part of the film's success was not taking the time travel mechanics too seriously and bogging down the story.

Predestination - 83%

When most movie fans hear about a film where a special agent works to stop crimes before they happen most jump straight to  Minority Report , but 2015 offered up another excellent addition to the genre with Ethan  Hawke 's  Predestination .  Rather than depending on "precogs" Hawke's a Temporal Agent, who hops through time to prevent killers from going through with their crimes.  Predestination  sees him on his final assignment, tasked with stopping a killer who puts not one but thousands of lives at risk.

Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home - 85%

Often viewed as the most fun of the early  Star Trek   films,  The Voyage Home   offered up a number of fun moments as the Enterprise crew found themselves in a world very much like our own (because it really was).

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The crew (in short because of a probe trying to destroy earth) uses the gravity slingshot time-warp effect to travel back in time to 20th-century earth in an attempt to bring back humpback whales (really, it all makes sense on screen). Watching Kirk and company try and make their way through 1980s California is almost as hysterical as  Bill and Ted,  though the  Star Trek  film has much more heart to offer than Keanu Reeves did.

Timecrimes - 89%

Hector is just trying to enjoy some time in the country when he spots a beautiful lady in Timecrimes . When he reaches her, she seems to be dead, and Hector is attacked. He runs off and hides in a research facility where he is closed in a futuristic closet which (spoiler alert) ends up being a time machine. What happens when Hector exits and finds himself back in the moment of the woman's death, watching himself stand over her body? The low budget 2007 film gets high marks from time travel fans.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 90%

Time Travel has never been all about scientists and aliens. In the third  Harry Potter   film, Hermione Granger uses time travel for the most pedestrian of purposes, to make it to all her classes. Of course, she is later able to use the Time-Turner (the magical time travel necklaces) to help Harry save two innocent lives.

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The Time-Turner comes with its own rules (like don't let yourself see yourself) that Hermione forces Harry to follow (as any good time traveler would) and the dangers and limitations of the device are fully appreciated.

Edge of Tomorrow - 90%

Think  Groundhog's Day  but with heavy sci-fi action and  Tom Cruise , and you have some idea what  Edge of Tomorrow 's  time travel concept looks like. Tom Cruise is killed, day after day, on the same mission, only to wake up and have to live the battle (and his death) all over again. In terms of good news, every time he wakes up, he comes back with his new experiences and skills from the days he has already "lived" through. If he can learn enough, perhaps he can live through the battle and move beyond a single twenty four hour period.

Twelve Monkeys - 90%

In the year 2035,  Bruce Willis can earn parole from his prison term if he agrees to travel back in time to stop a devastating plague. That's quite a tall order, but what else was he going to do? His first jump isn't so successful, landing him in a mental ward because his ravings about a plague make him sound... well, insane. Eventually, he's able to return to 2035 and make a second time-jump. Time travel can certainly make a person feel crazy, whether or not they actually are.

Looper - 93%

Again, if you want to see a well-reviewed time travel movie, picking one that stars Bruce Willis seems to be a safe choice. In 2012, Willis starred alongside Joseph Gordon Levitt in  Looper . In the movie's universe, time travel has been outlawed and is only available on the black market where mob bosses use it to send rivals and targets into the past where they will be met and murdered by hired guns known as Loopers. The real trick comes when Levitt's hired Looper is asked to murder Willis, who is really the grown-up version of Levitt himself.

Back to the Future - 96%

Time Travel is right in the title, and  Back to the Future   is perhaps the most recognized time travel movie of all time. This first in the  Back to the Future  trilogy sees  Michael J. Fox 's Marty McFly accidentally end up back in the 1950s after using a Delorean time machine built by his friend/mentor Doc Brown.  Back to the Future  works through many of the serious time travel questions of the day with heart and comedy. Is it possible to mess around so much in the past that you change the future so you don't exist? McFly finds out.

The Terminator - 100%

1984's James Cameron masterpiece tops the list with a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. While many fans believe that  Terminator 2: Judgement Day  is the superior film,  The Terminator   is the original and the one that deals most directly with time travel. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as the Terminator himself, who is sent back in time to murder Linda Hamilton before she can give birth to the boy/man who will bring down the cyborgs in the future. An excellent concept with excellent sequels.

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Lastly, there’s the type of time travel that happens when one is simply gifted with the genetics to do it with their mind. At 21, Tim (Domhnall Gleeson) discovers he has inherited this ability from his father (Bill Nighy) and is able to use it, so long as he is in a dark, quiet place, like a closet. Tim’s grand plan? Using time travel to find a girlfriend.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (stylised as FAQ About Time Travel ) is a 2009 comic science fiction film directed by Gareth Carrivick from a script by Jamie Mathieson, starring Chris O'Dowd , Dean Lennox Kelly , Marc Wootton , and Anna Faris .

The film follows two social outcasts (O'Dowd and Wootton) and their cynical friend (Kelly) as they attempt to navigate a time travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub, where they meet a girl from the future (Faris) who sets the adventure in motion.

It was released in the UK and Ireland on 24 April 2009. On its television premiere on BBC Two on 1 August 2010, the film was dedicated to its director Gareth Carrivick, who had died earlier in the year.

Ray (Chris O'Dowd) has been fired from his job as a costumed guide in a theme park attraction called "Star Ride". Ray's good friends Pete (Dean Lennox Kelly) and Toby (Marc Wootton) work at the theme park restaurant and they all decide to go to a cinema and pub after they leave.

Ray meets an American girl named Cassie (Anna Faris) who claims to have a time machine built into her body and whose job is to find and repair "time leaks" and stop "editors". Understandably, Ray's friends have some trouble believing her.

However, they end up traveling back and forth through time within the pub. Hints about their journey appear in different time stops. They meet a second time traveler, named Millie ( Meredith MacNeill ). Cassie is told about Millie and is immediately suspicious, with good reason. Cassie's time machine is taken offline and she finally meets Millie. Millie makes Toby an offer to die and be a legend which, of course, he refuses.

At the end of the movie, the three friends walk home wondering about the events in the pub when Cassie appears through a big glowing portal. She reveals that they have only fourteen hours to save the Earth (a reference to the film Flash Gordon ), and urges them to go with her to a parallel universe.

• Chris O'Dowd as Ray, the imagineer
• Dean Lennox Kelly as Pete, the cynic
• Marc Wootton as Toby, the dreamer
• Anna Faris as Cassie, the time traveler
• Meredith MacNeill as Millie, time traveler

The DVD was released on 7 September 2009 in the UK.

The film is a co-production between HBO Films and BBC Films. It was filmed at Pinewood Studios in the UK. The credits of the film include thanks to "The Wheatsheaf Pub".

The opening credits appear in outline block letters in light blue against the background of space, in the same style as the Superman films.

Critical reception has been mixed. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave it a rating of 40% based on twenty professional reviews.

Empire magazine concludes "Quirky and engaging with a script that keeps you on the ride." The review for the Daily Mirror 's verdict was: "This engaging comedy feels like a stretched-out TV pilot, but is nicely put together, with enough laughs to make a refreshing change from usual Brit film fare."

The Irish Times described it as a "mildly diverting yarn" but was critical of the small scale of the film and the apparently limited budget. Peter Bradshaw reviewed the film for The Guardian and said that it was "the worst film of the week, a dire British comedy, to which the only honest response is to soil and then set fire to the Union flag in the foyer of your local cinema."

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Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach is married to a champion on a losing streak. Her strategy for her husband's redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against his f... Read all Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach is married to a champion on a losing streak. Her strategy for her husband's redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend. Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach is married to a champion on a losing streak. Her strategy for her husband's redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.

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