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We Live in Time Failed to Move My Cold, Cold Heart

I never really bought the onscreen relationship, in part because I could constantly feel the movie trying too hard.

This quality can sometimes be a bit much, but it mostly serves him well in John Crowley’s tearjerking, timeline-hopping romantic drama We Live in Time, a chronicle of the eventful, years-long relationship between Weetabix sales rep Tobias (Garfield) and acclaimed chef Almut (Florence Pugh). The film jumps back and forth between scenes from the couple’s life together — their ridiculous meet cute, their torrid sex sessions, their pregnancy, their extended ordeals with Almut’s cancer. (Of course, the jumps also help obscure the fact that the movie doesn’t have much of a narrative; it’s basically Love Story without the class consciousness and with a bizarre high-end international cooking competition tacked on.)

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