Press Play

Press Play isn’t in the same league as Capra’s masterpiece, but it’s a modestly engaging and handsomely packaged diversion.

It's a really cool idea, but I really wish these two were better actors.

An evocative and altogether pleasant conjuring of the consuming nature of young love that serves as both a nice showcase for its up-and-coming stars and an exploration of the swirl of grief.

“Press Play” is pretty pleasant. It’s soft and breezy — the cinematic equivalent of yacht rock.

Like the songs that fill its soundtrack, Greg Björkman’s directorial debut has a catchy hook and atmospheric pull — yet the material leaves far too much underdeveloped, unrealized and incohesive to connect with viewers’ heads and hearts.

The soundtrack is good, if already a tad dated and sometimes distinctly on the nose (the cover of ‘Do You Realize??’ could have substituted for much of the script).
Laura and Harrison’s unlikely story is diverting and moderately entertaining

A so hip-it-hurts soundtrack also delivers the requisite “feels”, while the occasional well-chosen one-liner ensures things never get too maudlin.

Anchored by a very good performance from Rugaard (a largely unknown Danish actress), who works hard to sell the concept, the film manages to push past the obvious paradoxes of time travel and arrive at an emotionally satisfying end point that makes sense.

… a potentially interesting spin on a familiar sci-fi trope but fails to explore the inherent emotional depths.

Clever concept of a new kind of time travel with an appealing duo of lead actors. But the music should have been better.