Time Cut

Time Cut is a 2024 American science fiction slasher film directed by Hannah MacPherson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Kennedy. It stars Madison Bailey, Antonia Gentry, and Griffin Gluck. The plot follows Lucy, a teenage girl who accidentally travels back in time to 2003 and attempts to save her older sister from a masked killer. Time Cut was released by Netflix on October 30, 2024. It received negative reviews from critics, who unfavorably compared it to 2023's Totally Killer.

Time Cut is a 2024 American science fiction slasher film directed by Hannah MacPherson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Kennedy. It stars Madison Bailey, Antonia Gentry, and Griffin Gluck. The plot follows Lucy, a teenage girl who accidentally travels back in time to 2003 and attempts to save her older sister from a masked killer. Time Cut was released by Netflix on October 30, 2024. It received negative reviews from critics, who unfavorably compared it to 2023's Totally Killer.

Reception

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 36 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews. Benjamin Lee of The Guardian gave the film 2/5 stars, writing, "Like the dreadful second Happy Death Day film, there's far too much focus on the particulars of time travel, as if we expect or want a film like this to be rooted in any actual science, and like the many high-concept horrors that we've seen of late, there's a laziness to how it handles the simple slasher beats." RogerEbert.com's Brian Tallerico gave it 1/4 stars, writing, "the accusations that this film follows in [ Totally Killer]'s time-jumping footsteps are inevitable. But this film's failure can't be laid at the feet of a superior one. If that movie never existed—heck, if time jump movies in general never existed—this would still be a bad movie." The A.V. Clubs Matt Donato gave it a C− grade, calling it "a glancing blow of a snoozy slasher far more interested in being a 2000s rewound comedy, meeting somewhere in the unenthusiastic middle." The Hindus Mini Anthikad-Chhibber was more positive, writing, "The fun thing about Time Cut is it does not take itself too seriously like some other weighty incursions into the fabric of the space-time continuum." Empires Ben Travis gave it 3/5 stars, calling it "a passable addition to the slash-up genre – acceptable Halloween fare for the fright-challenged, or anyone with a soft spot for the music of Hilary Duff." Dais Johnston of Inverse wrote, "Time Cut is a movie that fundamentally understands what makes time travel stories interesting. It's not the science behind them, but how the characters react to the circumstances they find themselves in. It doesn't matter how Lucy learns she might cease to exist, but how she chooses to spare her own life or her sister's. Keeping the story simple allows every scene to glow and crackle like the time machine's lasers or a 2003 modem."

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