About time movie 201311/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘About Time’ is a light-touch comedy, not free of sentimentality, about a young man, Tim (Domhnall Gleeson), from a wealthy, boho background in Cornwall, who bumbles his way through life and love but who has a power inherited from his dad (Bill Nighy): he can hold his eyes shut and go back in time. And it will be a relief to anyone who suffered the excruciating gags-to-laughs ratio of his super-indulgent ‘The Boat that Rocked’. The familiarity of his new film, the cosy and evangelical ‘About Time’, will please fans as much as it irritates detractors. ![]() Richard Curtis has become a byword for everything in British cinema that’s safe, stuttery, gently amusing, occasionally teary and ten steps to the left of real.
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