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Time Out of Mind
2015
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Positive Reviews
59
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
3.3
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3.0
Streamlines a fascinating true story into functional prestige filmmaking, but its still plenty engaging, thanks largely to its lead.
Av Club
3.0
Even though Time Out Of Minds two hour run time can be tough to sit through, Gere gives a subtle, layered performance as a man barely existing on the ..
EW
4.4
Watching Time Out of Mind is not like the ordinary experience of watching a movie; its more like being in a public place and deciding to allow the sce ..
Rogerebert
4.5
At once non didactic and intensely political in its intimate snapshot of American poverty, Time Out of Mind is also a fascinating exercise in form, on ..
Variety
4.0
Gere uses the opportunity to strip himself entirely of artifice, and its a marvel of antitechnique.
Time Out
4.0
Homeless people dont have to look like stereotypical hobos they can look the way Gere does: like slightly scruffy people who are just numbed.
The Guardian
3.0
Youll share Georges sense of weariness as he searches for a simple nights sleep, but more importantly youll believe in the cold world he inhabits, and ..
The Guardian
3.1
Which isnt to say that we dont form a relationship with these creatures.
3.8
Like George, the movie sometimes dillydallies, but the unhurried rhythms ultimately have a hypnotic effect.
4.5
When those stars come out, youre watching actors, not characters.
Screen Daily
1.5
Moverman is attempting something hugely ambitious with Time Out of Mind: a socially conscious, existential displacement art movie. I think it would ha ..
Vulture
1.5
Tedium quickly sets in and is only sporadically relieved in this labor of love that simply doesnt reward even the patient attention of sympathetic vie ..
The Hollywood Reporter
4.5
Time Out of Mind isnt a study of social injustice or individual pathology; its neither an exploration of the problem of homelessness nor a cautionary ..
The New York Times
4.0
And for long stretches, Time Out of Mind proves so attuned to its protagonists haziness and his loud, busy, and yet lonely milieu that it proves a gri ..
Paste Magazine
4.0
The landlord (Steve Buscemi) arrives, doesnt recognise him, and turfs him out.
Telegraph
1.5
Given what it attempts, Time Out of Mind should be considered a success.
2.5
We appreciate the films authentic feel there is no phony story of redemption here but it doesnt take long for us to get bored, even when were sympathe ..
San Francisco Chronicle
4.0
Rest assured, Moverman knows what hes doing and his goal for this film is so you dont rest assured.
The Young Folks
5.0
Never less than powerful. Without sentimentality or gloss, it illuminates a part of city life that far too often is lost in the shadows.
Ny Daily News
4.0
TIME OUT OF MIND obviously isnt going to be for everyone, but it cant be denied that its one of the more audacious and unconventional films to play TI ..
JoBlo
1.5
I began thinking more of photography than the characters, a situation possibly made a bit worse by the movies two hour running time.
Philly
4.0
A poignant portrait of a homeless man who has fallen from grace and is struggling to survive.
Spirituality And Practice
4.5
Time Out of Mind is an experiment in empathy, an examination of bureaucracy and streetlife mundanity, and a movie that many will find a tough sit.
Village Voice
3.0
Its compassionate work with all the good intentions in the world, but Moverman refuses brevity, transforming what should be an unforgettable education ..
Blu Ray
4.4
Its an almost dreamy piece of work, with very little preaching about the state of homelessness today and instead a deep pondering of existence, surfac ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
4.5
Richard Gere stars as an elderly man forced out on the streets of New York City. There isnt much more to the story than that, but for the talented wri ..
Chicago Reader
2.5
...worth seeing for Geres performance, but the film itself is a meandering tone poem.
3.0
Gere, in a fearless performance, embodies George, slowly letting us learn about the man and why he is in such dire straights of life.
2.5
Geres thoroughly effective (and affecting) work here ultimately cant compensate for a pervasive lack of momentum, which does, in the end, confirm Time ..
Reel Film Reviews
4.0
Rejoice, fans of silver foxes and Eighties love gods. A week after Richard Gere scorched the screen as a billionaire morphine addict in The Benefactor ..
The Times
4.0
Its a drama about the struggle for self respect in the most parlous of circumstances, providing an ultimately convincing and affecting glimpse into a ..
Radio Times
4.0
Oren Movermans observational drama about the day to day life of George (Richard Gere), a homeless man in New York, is made with delicacy and insight.
Independent
4.4
And yet you cant turn away, so ardent and artful is the film at hand.
Rolling Stone
3.0
The film casts a forlorn mood that is evocative when it isnt wearying.
Cs Monitor
2.5
While Gere is very good in Time Out of Mind, he doesnt have the kind of character arc or bravura scene necessary to put over this very well meaning dr ..
New York Post
4.5
Shes his estranged daughter, it turns out, and either she doesnt want to know or shes heard it all before.
Npr
2.0
And while theres no doubting the curiosity value of seeing a pampered movie star playing down and out, and he certainly gives it his best shot, as an ..
Daily Mail
3.0
Yet, without any major plot developments, theres little to invest in, and Georges general dourness doesnt leave much on which to hang your emotions.
Flim List
2.0
Obviously improvising much of the time, Gere delivers an anguished performance.
Susang Ranger
3.8
Disheveled, exhausted and desperately humiliated, his wallet and I.D. papers missing, hes harassed by children and ousted from every park bench.
Observer
1.5
The filmmakers good intentions and great ambitions go unrealized.
New Yorker
2.0
Yet Moverman, working from his own screenplay, lets us see theres a life here and captures its extremes.
Boston Herald
4.0
Tatums energetic tap dance routine is one of the films show stopping moments.
Express
2.0
Geres performance isnt building towards a single cathartic or redemptive breakdown.
The Film Stage
4.0
This isnt a comeback; its a revelatory turn, one that perfectly captures the hopelessness and nothingness of a life that has fallen through every conc ..
The Irish Times
3.0
Moverman and Gere have made a topical, issues based film because of its humanity. Since life isnt tied up with a neat bow, neither does our time here.
Blogs Indie Wire
3.0
The question here is how well fractured and addled works dramatically.
Detroit News
3.1
Meanwhile, Moverman photographs this lost soul as if hes the background noise of the average urban dwellers life.
Groucho Reviews
4.0
George is a complex, fleshed out character in a film that is neither formulaic nor patronising towards the lower echelon it portrays.
Hey U Guys
2.0
But in Time Out of Mind, Gere pulls it off, shedding every hint of self consciousness as an actor and achieving a level of quiet immersion thats light ..
Oregon Live
3.0
A Coens picture is always a Coens picture but some are more Coens than others.
Games Radar
4.0
Georges plight is both heartbreaking and chilling and his time spent in waiting areas, hostels and subway trains inspires a greater sense of both tend ..
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
3.0
Moverman doesnt just film actors speaking lines, or chose to develop stories in conventional ways.
Lw Lies
4.4
The camera doesnt budge, but theres plenty going on in the bustling neighborhood below.
Christianity Today
4.0
New York itself, meanwhile, continues in all its impersonal clamour, the aural jangle of the city a pitiless soundscape that makes respite doubly diff ..
The Arts Desk
3.0
The film eventually reels you into its rhythms and the payoff, while slight, is surprisingly rewarding.
The Sun
2.0
He wants to be actorly, but hes clearly afraid to sacrifice his good looks.
Patriot Ledger
3.0
There is a lot to appreciate about the film, as its not a pretentious solution based look at homelessness, but rather about the first person experienc ..
Punch Drunk Critics
1.0
Director Oren Moverman doesnt seem all that interested in the grimy horror of homelessness except insofar as it gives him an opportunity to show Gere ..
Sandiego Reader
4.0
We dont know how much Dixon is just talking crap, much as we dont know how much George has hatched a narrative in his head thats slightly better than ..
Metro New York
1.5
The movies actors fare better when theres less expectation of a payoff.
Film Comment
4.5
Time Out of Mind unfolds slowly, but mostly rewards the viewers patience.
Film Comment
4.0
The film captures the alienated state of homelessness so completely that by the end the average citizens strolling by seem foreign.
The Skinny
2.0
George doesnt care what bar he is going to; all he cares about is that hes getting a drink.
Movie Mezzanine
1.5
This earnestly rendered film about the indignities of homelessness is just plain dull.
Film Journal International ..
4.5
With Ben Vereen, Kyra Sedgwick, Jeremy Strong, Michael Kenneth Williams, Steve Buscemi.
New City Film
4.5
The tacit strength of Geres sheer emotional power is overwhelming.
4.5
Too bad, because the movie that hes in is rather good despite his miscasting.
Fw Weekly
3.1
A humanist filmmaker whose credits include The Messenger, Moverman has made an urban survival story in a highly watchable semi documentary style.
Sf Examiner
1.5
As a star, hes come to embody different iterations of American male power sexual, financial, myth making.
Grant Land
4.5
He certainly doesnt believe hes welcome, and thats the saddest thing about Time Out of Mind.
Stream On Demand At Home
3.0
Oren Movermans understated film about a fathers struggle with mental illness avoids your typical narrative trickery. No revelatory ups or downs, just ..
Willamette Week
3.1
Time Out of Mind challenges audiences to accept Richard Gere as a homeless man who has been living off the grid for nearly a decade.
Film Forward
3.8
Another painstaking portrait of an American man in crisis from writer director Oren Moverman.
Commercial Appeal
3.0
Sudeikis and Brie also bring an astonishing amount of charm, sensuality and real emotion to the proceedings, elevating the film far beyond its rom com ..
City Beat
1.5
Time Out of Mind, whose painterly cinematography (by Bobby Bukowski) employs smears and blurs of color, doesnt look like Italian neo realism.
Nashville Scene
3.1
Consequently, its basically a plotless movie, which makes it unengaging and sort of boring to sit through.
Ny 1
3.0
George Hammondplayed by Richard Gere in a towering performance thats immersive and powerfulhas a tragic backstory, one he could never really overcome.
The Concourse Deads
4.5
Its not that Gere doesnt give a good performance, but his movie star aura radiates, no matter how poorly dressed he is.
J Post
4.5
He doesnt talk much and isnt very good at explaining how it all happened.
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