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- 05:30 AM, Mar 29
when writers Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan come to the consequences part of the story, Project Almanac misses its potential to go deeper and darkerby Linda Barnard [Toronto Star ]
the found-footage technique is aimed at teens, but surely they're smart enough to see through the thin characters and skimpy story. An almost-enjoyable throwawayby Rafer Guzman [Newsday ]
the film's logic is strained in several circumstances as the "rules" of time travel are established and then brokenby Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
Project Almanac starts as a typical bantering teen trifle, but it gets heavy quicklyby David Hiltbrand [Philadelphia Inquirer ]
plenty familiar to butterfly-effect believers - in a film that squanders its potentialby Peter Debruge [Variety ]
modestly entertainingby Jordan Hoffman [The Guardian ]
by the time the deja-view dud screeches to an end, and you've just lost 106 minutes you'll never get backby Brad Wheeler [Globe and Mail ]
along the way Almanac is forced to cheat so much with its ostensibly self-shot material that one has to ask why the format was chosenby John DeFore [Hollywood Reporter ]
"Project Almanac" isn't "Time After Time" (1979) or "Back to the Future" (1985) or "12 Monkeys" (1996), but the new release does turn out to be a surprisingly jaunty trip for jaded Gen-Y kidsby Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News ]