One Day: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 2 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 134 reviews

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

34

Scherfig demonstrated her ability to infuse a talky script with plenty of wordless mood in An Education. But in One Day, the words - many of them taken directly from the book - are never convincing.
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A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

60

"One Day" turns an episodic story into an anthology of feelings and associations, many familiar, a few surprising, some embarrassing and one or two worth holding onto.
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Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

40

A slushy, mawkish and weirdly humourless romance with a sub-Richard Curtis style and more endings than Lord of the Rings.
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Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

88

Amid sharp banter, the film poignantly captures how lives meander and take unexpected turns.
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Ann Hornaday Washington Post (Top Critic)

63

Nicholls has proven a faithful shepherd to his fictional creations, who banter and rant at each other with the practiced elan of the aging couple they're clearly meant to be.
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Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

25

A miscast, underwritten, drably directed adaptation of a very popular novel, it's the feel-bad film of the summer and an almost perfect example of how not to turn a book into a movie.
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Karina Longworth Village Voice (Top Critic)

"Sense of humor is overrated," Emma says at one point, and while she means it ironically, the true irony is that One Day's sense of humor is sorely lacking.
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Joe Neumaier New York Daily News (Top Critic)

40

As 1992 rolls around, a sense of dread sets in: Are they really going to do every single year?
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Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal (Top Critic)

The movie's content and style generate all the synergy of fingernails and blackboard.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

In a season of movies dumb and dumber, "One Day" has style, freshness, and witty bantering dialogue.
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Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

50

When a movie inflates the importance of a love story that is predominantly comic in tone, even with a fair share of grief and loss built into the plot, that love story takes on more than it can handle.
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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

Watchable but not very gripping.
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Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

50

The performances are overeager. Particularly distracting is Hathaway's accent, which is less Yorkshire than New York.
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Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

75

"One Day" won't set the world on fire but it radiates pleasing warmth.
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Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

34

Miscasting aside, there's simply very little excitement to the film since you can see where it's going -- chances are even just by reading this review -- right from the start.
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Randy Cordova Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

40

We simply zoom in and zoom out of the characters' lives rather than develop any kind of emotional attachment to them.
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Una LaMarche New York Observer (Top Critic)

50

It's a sweet, harmless, meandering tale with an engaging gimmick, but a great love story -- or a great movie -- it's not.
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Justin Chang Variety (Top Critic)

On a moment-by-moment basis, Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess make this long-arc love story viable, sometimes even vital. But the structural conceit proves more reductive than expansive.
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Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

50

There are no sparks whatsoever, and that's always a deal-breaker for me in romantic films.
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Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

50

It's a frustrating film, never light enough on its feet to be cute, never heartfelt enough to achieve "You had me at 'Hello.'"
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Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

38

Long before the credits roll, you may find yourself wishing your life could flash before your eyes, to end the monotony of this relentless turning of calendar pages.
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Eric D. Snider Film.com (Top Critic)

50

It's what a Nicholas Sparks movie would be if it were aimed at grown women rather than teenage girls.
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Eric Kohn indieWIRE (Top Critic)

Anne Hathaway's faux British accent might be the first obvious conceit in "One Day," but not its most cumbersome. That distinction belongs to the eponymous structure.
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Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

The result is a rom-com with ambition, keen to actually develop the characters and to mix a few tears with the laughs. Well, the effort is admirable, the movie not so much.
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Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com (Top Critic)

You could definitely call it awful, and I'm about to do so, repeatedly and effusively.
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