★★★★ First, Shawn Levy is a director who, with ups and downs, is one of those who makes the best films “by and with boys” (we won’t say “children’s”). From A Night at the Museum to the beautiful Iron Giants, he has managed to capture the universality of a child’s point of view without falling into childishness. Here is a time traveler who accidentally meets his twelve-year-old self and has to fulfill a certain crucial mission. And there are dangers (and most of the actors played roles in a Marvel movie, that is, they know how to work in the field of the fantastic and the virtual, something that we should see as a mutation of cinema), but what matters most is how, behind all this, the family institution is built (or deconstructed, or rebuilt, or reconfigured). Ryan Reynolds, an actor resisted by some critics, is the necessary face for this film and it works.
