Project Almanac

The genre dramatizes the identity formation that goes on during the digital technology-glutted adolescent years, which are filled with screens and captured images, whether from smartphones, cameras, vlogging, or pictures on social media.

Enough already with the "found footage" movies.

The 106 minutes between the opening scene and the end credits still feels like an eternity.

[It] is a "found footage" movie. This gimmick may have run its course: not only does Israelite use the method inconsistently, he never shows why it's needed to tell this particular story.

By the time the mind-bending paradoxes kick in, the film's potential complexities have devolved into mere clutter, both narrative and visual: the coolest thing the device does is to make debris revolve in mid-air.

Dean Israelite's time-travel drama is hampered by its own found-footage conceit.

Project Almanac is a rousing success for the hard-to-nail found footage and time travel genres a fun January release that will more than make up for the lack of quality 2015 titles out at the multiplex.

Has all the annoying traits of found footage movies-"You're getting all this, right?"-and screams out for a tripod, but for the most part is a zippy young adult sci fi story with equal parts brains and heart.

Goofy, clever, and endearing enough to be worth your time.

It hardly entertains... and you will quickly forget it. Anyway, at least it doesn't offend. [Full Review in Spanish]