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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeGentry's tense screenplay works well on its own, but gets a big assist from music and production design intent on conjuring some very specific moods.
- 63RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireRogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireHaving such a small number of characters, like the limitations caused by budgetary constraints, might sound like a recipe for creative claustrophobia, but Gentry turns these givens to his advantage, almost as if using Synchronicity to articulate a less-is-more filmmaking philosophy.
- 50Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlAn admirably complex tale of time travel, corporate espionage, and high emotions you'll just have to take everyone's word on, Jacob Gentry's science fiction puzzler Synchronicity is so ambitious — and so canny, on occasion — that you might be willing to forgive its indie infelicities.
- 50The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThe A.V. ClubA.A. DowdSynchronicity is more contraption than movie, its plot as mechanically functional as a clock, rotating characters around like gears.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveySynchronicity is best approached as a sort of Rubik’s cube, a series of shiny, sliding, interlocking surfaces that require dexterity to move and figure out, but contain nothing beneath of pressing value.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreNo matter how gorgeous Synchronicity looks, it can’t keep you from feeling this was an opportunity missed.
- 38Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenWriter-director Jacob Gentry's film has the emotional fatuousness of uncertain softcore erotica.
- 30Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThe film almost suffocates on overripe dialogue (“We are messing with the primal forces of nature here”) and finally loses its way in the logical contradictions — or the nonlogical implications — of time travel.
- 30The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisThe combustible Mr. Ironside vaulted into movie immortality as the antagonist in “Scanners,” David Cronenberg’s down-and-dirty, exploding-head anti-classic. Synchronicity, a low-budget misfire about time and love, could use some exploding heads, dialogue and ideas.
- 30Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayAfter an hour or so of bad noir dialogue and convoluted plotting, viewers may wish they could jump back in time and watch something else.