About Time is still Rachel McAdams’ most thoughtful time-travel movie

Nobody in the history of cinema has had more time-traveling husbands than Rachel McAdams. Four years after she starred in The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009) opposite Eric Bana, McAdams played Mary in About Time (2013). While the movie initially seems like a generic time-travel romance in which Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) uses his family’s hereditary ability to woo the girl of his dreams, what unfolds is more a meditation on appreciating the finer things in life. The romance and time-traveling complications are there, along with some clever writing and charming chemistry, but About Time winds up far more philosophical than you might expect.