“I’m a temporal agent. We prevent crime before it takes place,” explains Ethan Hawke’s character in this handsomely gloomy sci-fi noir. If that calls to mind 2002’s “Minority Report,” the film does ...

"Predestination" is a clever, quotable twist on time travel, that age-old sci-fi plot device. This adaptation of a Robert A. Heinlein story by film-directing brothers Michael and Peter Spierig touches ...

On the face of it, it does not seem difficult to state the contradictions that beset a doctrine of predestination. An absolute sense that God determines the outcome of our lives cuts the nerve of ...

Sarah Snook plays an androgynous character struggling with his sexuality in the sci-fi thriller “Predestination.” Whenever a movie about time travel is released, its logic quickly falls prey to ...

The Spierig Brothers directing team and actor Ethan Hawke collaborate again for another ambitious spin on an old story. By Elizabeth Kerr Predestination Still - H 2014 For those who haven’t read ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Set in the context of the Cambridge debates on grace and predestination in the 1590s, and of the wider controversy in the Reformed and Roman ...

An entrancingly strange time-travel saga that suggests a Philip K. Dick yarn by way of Jeffrey Eugenides’ “Middlesex,” or perhaps a feature-length mash-up of “Looper” and “Cloud Atlas,” ...