See You Yesterday

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See You Yesterday

2019

1h 26m

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi

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Two teenage science prodigies spend every spare minute working on their latest homemade invention: backpacks that enable time travel. When one of their older brothers is killed, they put their unfinished project to the test to save him.

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See You Yesterday marries a novel sci-fi premise with urgent social relevance and forges something excitedly new from the union -- providing an impressive showcase for star Eden Duncan-Smith and debut writer-director Stefon Bristol.

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Maya Phillips

The New Yorker

Though the movie encounters some of the usual pitfalls of time-travel plots (predictability, muddled rules) and sports some hokey, eighties-style special effects, what it offers in terms of diversity and messaging is a treasure.

May 29, 2019

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Soraya Nadia McDonald

Andscape

No matter the inspired cinematography or considered, authentic performances, these stories carry a weight of inevitability as they suck every particle of hope out of the air.

May 18, 2019

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Adam Graham

Detroit News

The teenagers speak with authentic voices, and Bristol builds a believable world for them (they conduct their science experiments inside Sebastian's grandmother's garage) without bogging them down in science.

Rated: B

May 17, 2019

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Daniel Hart

Ready Steady Cut

See You Yesterday is colorful and fun, but it also manages to achieve some critical themes, giving the film a different genre, almost.

Rated: 3.55

Oct 25, 2024

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Lonita Cook

KCTV5 News at 9

A very different blend [of genres]... I think for the most part it's unsuccessful.

Sep 29, 2021

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Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

This movie has a very attractive cast of talented young actors who go a long way towards making this downbeat story more palatable. It was also a treat to see the most famous time traveler of all in the film, Michael J. Fox.

Rated: B

Jan 31, 2021

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Daque K

This movie is like a kids after school special with lots of cursing thrown in. The effects are cheesey, the acting is meh. I cant believe Michael J Fox would agree to be in this and somehow Spike Lee produced it. Two thumbs down, this movie is dumb and just ends for no reason.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/13/24

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dreamqueen d

It’s a good movie,it worth to watch

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/09/24

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Mikko Aquila N

This movie was a disaster, at first it really got my hopes up but then the movie was slow. The characters were awful and there were multiple plot holes in the movie. The worst part was that the movie ends for no reason at all. The movie had potential but they just threw it all off.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/28/24

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Andrei Z

Awful, everything was awful. The science was awful, the plot was awful, the characters were awful.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/11/24

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Paul P

They started with a half baked story line and never finished baking it. Some of the acting was great... some of it was 1000% overacted. Not the worst thing I've ever watched, but it started nowhere, went nowhere and finished nowhere.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/09/23

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Tony K

The only plus of the movie (although it's hard to call it a movie, rather an extended pilot of the TV show) is a cameo by Michael J. Fox

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/01/23

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Synopsis

Two teenage science prodigies spend every spare minute working on their latest homemade invention: backpacks that enable time travel. When one of their older brothers is killed, they put their unfinished project to the test to save him.

Director: Stefon Bristol
Producer: Spike Lee
Screenwriter: Stefon Bristol, Fredrica Bailey
Production Co: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 17, 2019
Runtime: 1h 26m

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