Polygon.com / 12.06.25

Netflix's science fiction romance Our Times breaks the time travel movie rules

From The Flash to Avengers: Endgame to 2002s The Time Machine, time travel movies often follow characters hoping to prevent a present personal tragedy or larger calamity by tweaking some event in the past. The sweetly funny Our Times, now streaming on Netflix, breaks that mold by sending its characters to the future and focusing on how they make the most of their present a novel, forward-looking reframing of the genres obsession with personal growth that could have been improved with a slightly deeper examination of its central theme about gender parity. Multi-platinum singer and regular Latin Grammy Awards host Lucero stars as Nora Esquivel, a physics professor in 1966 Mexico working on building a time machine with her loving husband Héctor (Benny Ibarra). While Héctor views her as a true partner, everyone else at the National Autonomous University of Mexico sees her more as Héctors assistant. When the dean comes over for dinner to talk about the status of their project, he makes i...
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