See You Yesterday is Back to the Future with sharp social commentary

Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review comes from the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.

Time machines aren’t real, but most people still basically understand their rules: respect the butterfly effect, don’t meet your past self, don’t take the Infinity Stones to another universe, and if you want to prevent a disaster, prepare for unforeseen consequences.

In the upcoming Netflix release See You Yesterday — directed by Stefon Bristol, co-written by Fredrica Bailey, and produced by Spike Lee — the protagonists actually do create a time machine. And they’re all too aware of its dangers. But See You Yesterday walks a delicate line between optimism and…

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