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Although Groundhog Day is the most notable example, the time loop story is its own genre by this point. There are time loop episodes of Agents of SHIELD, Star Trek, movies like Edge of Tomorrow, the recent (very fantastic) Palm Springs and a whole bunch more. The latest entry in the time loop genre is The Map of Tiny Perfect Things and while two time loopers falling in love is very similar to Palm Springs, it’s sort of a mash-up of Groundhog Day and the young people walk and talk philosophically about life of Before Sunrise. There are bits where this movie seems a bit too enamoured of its concept of finding perfect moments, but it provides some cool twists in the time loop genre and the chemistry of the two leads carries a lot.
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Film Review: “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things”: A Perfect Valentine’s Day Thing
America loves its time-loop movies: “Groundhog Day,” “Edge of Tomorrow,” “Palm Springs,” to name a few, and even “Back to the Future” has time-loop elements. Arriving in time for St. Valentine’s Day, “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things” adds a quirky, fun, teen comedy-romance entry to the genre. Mark (Kyle Allen) and Margaret (Kathryn Newton) are teens stuck in a time loop, in “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things.” (Amazon Prime Video)
He’s Got It All Wired
Mark (Kyle Allen) is a Ferris Bueller-type high schooler from Fairhope, Alabama. He seems awfully prescient. In fact, he seems like some kind of advanced honor student who really ought to already be at MIT or something. But not in an academic sense. It’s just that he’s got exquisite timing. He does stuff like breezing into the kitchen for breakfast, snatching the toast exactly as it pops out of the toaster, staying a