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  Review by kársten ★★★½ 4

  Honestly way better than I thought it’d be. Some great performances and a really cool concept. In fact I wish it was either a bit longer or more fleshed out because the concept had so much potential. Also deserved a bit more of an interesting approach visually. But regardless, an entertaining time.

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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★½ 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Can relate because I used to be addicted to time travel pills, but that’s all in the past now.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★ 7

  There used to be a comedian named Louis CK who had a standup bit about the historical upside of being white. “Here’s how great it is to be white,” he would say. “I could get in a time machine and go to any time and it would be fucking awesome when I get there. That is exclusively a white privilege — Black people can’t fuck with time machines.” Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s dense and dingy sci-fi thriller “Synchronic” is, among far too many other things, the story of a Black man who fucks with a time machine. Complications ensue.

  This isn’t the first film to broach the subject (“Men in Black III” and Martin Lawrence’s “Black Knight” are just…

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  Review by Nick Mullen ★★★

  Tight movie about how getting fucked up on gas station drugs is the least selfish thing you can do because you’re gonna die anyways and nobodies tryna hear your bullshit

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  Review by George Clark ★★★ 7

  Moorhead and Benson’s latest escapade, and the first I’ve seen from the pair, Synchronic, is completely mind-boggling. The story follows two New Orleans paramedics' whose lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

  Both Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead have quickly made a name for themselves in recent years with their takes on the sci-fi genre being much more vibrant and interesting then others that have come before. The story itself, being about a drug that sends its users back in time for seven minutes, grapples with you as it takes you through its chronology mazes, turning what might otherwise have been an out of the…

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  Review by josh lewis ★★ 9

  a future Dumb Guy classic.

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  Review by Jacob Knight ★★★★

  “The present is a miracle, bruh.”

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  Review by matt lynch ★★

  It's bad enough that the premise here is so distractingly implausible and nonsensical, but to put it in the service of this bland "gather ye rosebuds" platitude crap is borderline insulting. Could have just watched any given Quantum Leap episode. A big disappointment from these guys.

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  Review by Jordan Beaumont Anderson ★★ 19

  Pothead Tenet

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  Review by marcricov ★★ 2

  Stale. The closest thing to a Christopher Nolan failure that Christopher Nolan didn’t make.

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  Review by WraithApe ★★★½ 6

  I always look forward to a new Benson & Moorhead outing and they haven't let me down yet. Their fourth feature, and the third they've brought to LFF, is a time-travelling buddy designer-drug-conspiracy jam more in the spirit of 80s capers than intensely cerebral fare like Primer. Not to say it isn't as intelligently written and idiosyncratic as all their films to date, but it's definitely on the lighter side of weird.

  As with their previous features, good use is made of post-production effects to give it the appearance of being a bigger budget film than it actually is. It looks very good - not just in terms of the effects; the cinematography is assured throughout. A lot rests on the…

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  Review by Ryan Daniel ★★★½

  It’s sad this is definitely not gonna get the attention it deserves. It’s nothing crazy, but it’s a really well made science fiction thriller. I will say that the second half dragged a bit, but most of the movie is filled with really awesome effects and a pretty original take on time travel.