Needle in a Timestack

Name: Needle in a Timestack
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Released: October 15, 2021
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 42
Cast: Alessandro Juliani, Charles Singh, Cynthia Erivo, Elizabeth Weinstein, Freida Pinto

2021

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Lionsgate | Release Date: October 15, 2021 | R

Starring: Alessandro Juliani, Charles Singh, Cynthia Erivo, Elizabeth Weinstein, Freida Pinto, Gourav Shah, Hiro Kanagawa, Jadyn Wong, James Kirk, Johannah Newmarch, Laysla De Oliveira, Leslie Odom Jr., Orlando Bloom, Ulka Simone Mohanty

Summary: If love is in the form of a circle, what lines would you cross to be with your soulmate? Nick and Janine (Leslie Odom, Jr. and Cynthia Erivo) live in marital bliss, until Janine’s ex-husband (Orlando Bloom) warps time to try to tear them apart using Nick’s college girlfriend (Frieda Pinto). As Nick’s memories and reality disappear, he mustIf love is in the form of a circle, what lines would you cross to be with your soulmate? Nick and Janine (Leslie Odom, Jr. and Cynthia Erivo) live in marital bliss, until Janine’s ex-husband (Orlando Bloom) warps time to try to tear them apart using Nick’s college girlfriend (Frieda Pinto). As Nick’s memories and reality disappear, he must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice in order to hold onto — or let go of — everything he loves. Can love endure in a future where time is fluid, and all of life may be just an illusion?… Expand

Director: John Ridley

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 111 min

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The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Oct 13, 2021

I don’t think John Ridley’s Needle in a Timestack (adapted from the short story by Robert Silverberg) quite reaches the full potential of its conceit, but it comes close while overcoming any early preconceptions. Read full review

Polygon Roxana Hadadi

Oct 14, 2021

Needle in a Timestack lacks the interior worldbuilding necessary to pull off its heartstring-tugging intentions, and the result is a movie that unintentionally confirms how no good ever comes from men who obsessively refuse to leave women alone. Read full review

Bob Strauss

Oct 14, 2021

The movie is almost all conversations, most of which are intriguing and sensitively structured, with little action. It’s enough, but not worth changing the world for. Read full review

Josh Kupecki

Oct 14, 2021

It’s the lack of tension, overlong running time, and ultimately mawkish message that makes Needle a nonstarter. Read full review

Michael Ordoña

Oct 14, 2021

Odom, surely one of the busiest actors working today, gives a committed performance but lacks chemistry with either of his onscreen wives. A sense of lightness, of fun, of the alchemy between two people is missing, though it would seem crucial to drive the story. Read full review

Tara Bennett

Oct 24, 2021

Despite a great cast, Needle in a Timestack lets the fuzzy logic time travel tropes trample the characters and our care for them and their plights. Read full review

Mark Hanson

Oct 13, 2021

The film is too blinded by manufactured sentimentality to see the more compelling what-if scenario lying right in front of its eyes. Read full review

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