90
Our Time Machine might deploy too many endings, but each epilogue feels precious as if it is snatching as much time as it could with its subjects.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
100
Our Time Machine is very carefully balanced between the personal and the professional. An elegant, focused piece of storytelling finds the space to explore the family history revealing the way in which these lives are inextricably linked with the history of China itself.
100
San Francisco Chronicle by G. Allen Johnson
The issues of aging and familial relationships and the appealing nature of this family would make “Our Time Machine” worthy of a look in any case, but what puts it over the top is Maleonn’s fascinating visual inventions.
80
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
This often visually beautiful movie sometimes ventures full-time into Maleonn’s own dreams and is frank in its depiction of the conflicts in the family — as well as of Maleonn’s struggles to be a good son and an active artist, as his ambitions for the project run ahead of his financial resources.
88
The documentary displays such winsome artistry that you also leave feeling energized. It’s an invigorating act of creative defiance in the face of Alzheimer’s disease.
80
The Hollywood Reporter by Justin Lowe
The technical and logistical details of the project are constantly fascinating, but it’s these emotional moments that pack most of the film’s power.
67
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
Maleonn somehow finds an anchor of optimism amidst the situation, despite his father’s steady memory decline. That, too, is part of this film’s gift.
75
RogerEbert.com by Matt Fagerholm
Our Time Machine leaves you wanting a whole lot more, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
90
Sun and Chiang strike a tricky balance between a high-stakes making-of documentary and an intimate, observational family portrait, but Maleonn is such a thoughtful, sensitive, brilliant subject that the film is compelling no matter where on the creative spectrum they find him.