Given its popularity, you've probably seen Groundhog Day, or are at least familiar with its premise. The classic 1993 movie stars Bill Murray as Phil Connors, a surly weatherman sent to cover the ...

Time travel movies are always interesting, but the truly best time loop movies add an extra special aspect to the genre — and do it with style. Time loop movies are defined as when a character, for ...

The geeky gatekeeping and genre movie echo chambers that so often tend to exist in the largest movie discussion subreddits can make using Reddit an exhausting proposition at times for movie fans who ...

Time travel movies only work when they find a new way to explore what is, now, a well-used concept. One of the best twists on time travel are time loops. Instead of going into the far future or ...

“Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today!” proclaims Phil Connors (Bill Murray) in “Groundhog Day.” This moment of existential crisis marks Phil’s turning point as he realizes that ...

Since Groundhog Day reinvented the genre, time-loop movies have been a way to tell a high-stakes story in a low-stakes way (the exception being Edge of Tomorrow, every aspect of which is high-stakes).

Michael J. Fox walking across the street in a scene from the film 'Back To The Future', 1985. There are a couple of micro-genres in the larger time travel genre. Especially popular ones include time ...

As aficionados of the time loop movie concept, we here at The A.V. Club are well aware that a really good cinematic ouroboros requires much more than just a dab hand at goofy montages and a decent ...