The Time Traveler's Wife is a "first-rate and spellbinding drama," said Pete Hammond in Boxoffice Magazine. Based on the best-selling novel by Audrey Niffenegger, and starring the perfectly paired Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, this "handsomely produced" film combines "elements of sweepingly romantic time travel movies like Somewhere In Time and the supernatural swoon of Ghost." (watch the trailer for The Time Traveler's Wife)
The "thoroughness" and attention to detail in The Time Traveler's Wife "may impress fans" of the book, said Nick Pinkerton in The Village Voice, "but will disappoint anyone looking for transport from a movie—being a time traveler's wife, it turns out, is mostly a drag." And there's too much focus on the lead character's "tendency to inconveniently melt in and out of the present, finding himself unceremoniously stranded somewhere in time, naked."
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