About Time is one of them.
If you haven’t seen About Time, here’s what you need to know: it’s not really a time travel movie. It’s a movie about paying attention. About noticing the ordinary moments that make up a life — a marriage, a family, a Tuesday afternoon — and realizing, usually too late, how good they actually were.
It’s the kind of movie that stays with you. The kind you think about weeks later while doing something completely unrelated. The kind where the emotion is the whole point.
And that’s exactly why what you bring into the viewing experience matters.
When the Vibe Is the Point
Not every movie is just a plot delivery mechanism. Some of them are trying to make you feel something specific — and the experience of watching them is inseparable from what they’re actually doing.
About Time is gentle. It’s tender. Every scene is building toward something quiet and true. That emotional through-line is what makes the movie work, and anything that interrupts it — a scene that pulls you out, content that shifts the mood — doesn’t just break the moment. It undermines the whole thing.
This is where filtering stops being about restriction and starts being about intention. You’re not skipping things because you’re afraid of them. You’re skipping them because you know what this movie is trying to do, and you want to let it do that.
Watching It the Way It’s Meant to Feel
VidAngel lets you filter content from your existing streaming services — nudity, sexual content, profanity, violence, and more — across 100+ customizable filters. You choose what gets skipped. The story keeps playing exactly as it should, just without the moments that would pull you out of it.
For a movie like About Time, that means the emotion gets to be the main character. Nothing competing with it. Nothing interrupting it. Just the story, doing exactly what it came to do.
It works across 25,000+ titles on Netflix, Prime Video, Paramount+, Apple TV+, Peacock, and more. And there’s a free trial so you can find out what it’s like to watch your favorite movie exactly the way you want to watch it.
Sharing the Movies That Mean Something
Content creator Isabel Hallows Hawkes has watched About Time more times than she can count — and she’s been waiting to share it with her husband. When you love a movie that much, you want the first watch to land exactly right. VidAngel is how she makes sure it does.
Press Play. Let the Movie Do Its Thing.
The best movies earn their emotions. Give them the space to.
