Joining the likes of ARQ, The Adam Project, and last year’s underrated Time Cut, Our Times (Nuestros Tiempos) is the latest Netflix movie to explore the concept of time travel. Instead of thwarting megalomaniacal leaders or fleeing serial killers, however, the Mexican original grounds its science fiction in something a little more socially conscious.
Directed by Chava Cartas — whose eclectic resume ranges from the Acapulco adaptation of Gossip Girl to Day of the Dead horror MexZombies — the low-budget affair centers on Nora (pop idol Lucero) and Hector (Benny Ibarra), a seemingly happily married pair of physicists who’ve spent years working on a top-secret project with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Of course, this being 1966 and all, the credit isn’t exactly shared equally.
