Aporia (film)

Aporia is a 2023 science-fiction film written and directed by Jared Moshe, starring Judy Greer as a woman who tries to change the past where her husband was killed by a drunk driver.

After learning that Aggie suffers from multiple sclerosis, and that Kara is now struggling to pay for her medical care, Sophie, Malcolm, and Jabir resolve to use the machine to help them.

Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Robert Abele described it as "mix of rough-around-the-edges logic and heartfelt suspense, it likably reclaims sci-fi’s speculative, moral heft from the province of shiny, plastic world-ending epics, dropping it squarely onto, as Casablanca memorably put it, "the problems of three little people".

[3] Writing for Variety, reviewer Dennis Harvey said "the concept provides enough narrative drive to prevent Aporia from settling into mere depressing kitchen-sink realism.

While it may not stress fear or fancy as much as most such comparable tales, this quasi-scientific fiction nonetheless easily holds us in suspense, wondering just where so much monkeying with the time-space continuum will lead.

"[4] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times gave a more mixed review, describing it as "a deeply silly time-travel weepie buoyed solely by the soapy warmth of its performances.