TiMER: Critic Reviews

Some of Ms. Schaeffer's plot twists are easy to guess, but everyone's enjoyable to watch.

A romcom is a romcom, however, and at least this one's more charming than most of Jennifer Aniston's career.

TiMER never rises above the level of a sitcom. All that's missing is the laugh track.

Make time for this one.

For all its low budget shortcomings, TiMER has a scruffy charm you just can't buy.

Jac Shaeffer plays around with the ideas of time and relationships like a malevolent matchmaker, finding plenty of laugh-out loud laughs in the process.

Despite its far-fetched premise Jac Schaeffer's debut feature has a surfeit of low-budget, high-concept indie charm and an adorable lead in Emma Caulfield

While sex and science fiction make for strange bedfellows, TiMER takes up this peculiar but intriguing hybrid challenge, perfecting product predictability in romance in a consumer society already fixated on a warranty for nearly everything else in life.

The lukewarm female talk occasionally grates and the men are portrayed as mind-numbingly simplistic, but on the whole this cyber-Cupid exercise is surprisingly affecting.

TiMER is not only predicated on a ridiculous premise, but one with a surprisingly muddled message.