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

05/29/2019

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.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald

Andscape

05/18/2019

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.

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Adam Graham

Detroit News

05/17/2019

B

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.

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Daniel Hart

Ready Steady Cut

10/25/2024

3.55

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

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Lonita Cook

KCTV5 News at 9

09/29/2021

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

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Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

01/31/2021

B

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.

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Adella R

@RT09796743 Jul 10

I takes quite a lot to make me rate a movie less than a star. This movie was absolute rubbish. I kept waiting for it to get better ... but it didn't. I should have cut my losses and just stopped watching it. What a huge disappointment. The acting was ok ... but the plot was the thing that let it down. And don't get me started on the ending.

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David H

@rivrocks Jul 8

Spike Lee is the director's mentor. It doesn't show. The holes in the screenplay are perplexing, as are some of the casting decisions. Maybe if there was any discernible moral to the story I could have overlooked some of the ineptitudes. Takeaways: Don't travel back in time, don't live in Flatbush, and don't waste your time watching this movie.

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Michael K

@RT92820932 Oct 27

Don't get the haters on this one. It was a fun well acted and constructed scifi. If you like the genre in general you should be a fan.

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Ryan V.

@anothermovieguy Oct 16

Horrible movie that make cops look like villains, the story is flawed and hard to process. Also the fact that so many smart people are in a neighborhood like this this is and getting no recognition makes no sense. This movie is cash grabby, cheap, and only good if you only watched colored movies.

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Brian H

@RT75185884 04/01/2025

It's not Primer or the Avengers and it's not trying to be. What it is is a good story about a girl and her relationship to those around her. This movie seems to get a lot of negative reviews because the science isn't taken too seriously and the effects aren't spectacular, but that's missing what the movie is actually about. If you're looking for hard, deep sci-fi this isn't it. If you want a film about people and how they care about each other that uses time travel and sciency words to help move the real story along then you'll probably like this.

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Livia D

@RT33691002 03/15/2025

I personally enjoyed this movie a lot, to me what makes it great it's the story line and the ending and ehat it represents.

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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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