romance
Netflix’s science fiction romance Our Times breaks the time travel movie rules
From The Flash to Avengers: Endgame to 2002’s The Time Machine, time travel movies often follow characters hoping to prevent a present personal tragedy or larger calamity by tweaking some event in the past. The sweetly funny Our Times, now streaming on Netflix, breaks that mold by sending its characters to the future and focusing…
The wildly ambitious sci-fi romance Love Me lets WALL-E grow up — and obsess over influencers
A version of this Love Me review was initially posted after its premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. It has been updated for the movie’s theatrical release. Centuries after an extinction event wipes out humanity, two surviving AIs — an internet-enabled robotic buoy and an orbiting satellite (played by Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun,…