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ONE DAY (2011)Movie Reviews
Comedy drama follows the lives of two friends on the same date over many years, as they realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along. Cast:Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Romola Garai, Rafe SpallDirector:Lone ScherfigRelease Date:August 19, 2011DVD Release:November 29, 2011From:Focus FeaturesRating:PG-13Length:1 hr. 47 min.
One Day (2011) played to mixed reviews. • Peg Aloi wrote in the Boston Phoenix, "Hathaway shines as always, Patricia Clarkson is a marvel... Scherfig's masterful treatment of silences, surfaces, and locations is worth watching." • And Tom Long wrote in the Detroit News, "...there's simply very little excitement to the film since you can see where it's going..." More Reviews Below...
One Day (2011) Positive Reviews (49 Reviews, reviews below)
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: FAIR(cg) "...a drippy, uninvolving movie adaptation of a best-selling novel... the dialogue doesn't flow with anything resembling ease or even tonal logic."(See all of Lisa Schwarzbaum's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 593 words, 08/19/11
Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: WEAK(cg) "Sturgess is appealing but a trifle amorphous.... Hathaway doesn't animate her ugly-duckling-turned-swan character in any meaningful way. She lacks spark."(See all of Glenn Kenny's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 800 words, 08/17/11
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A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...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."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,130 words, 08/19/11
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: WEAK(cg) "Hathaway's best doing contemporary and edgy, as in her Oscar-nominated turn in 'Rachel Getting Married.' Up-to-the-minute serves her well. 'One Day' does not."(See all of Joe Neumaier's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 440 words, 08/19/11
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "...why do we show up for romantic movies, if not to pull for an ever after, happily or otherwise? Dialogue that played on page turns tedious on screen..."(See all of Betsy Sharkey's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 814 words, 08/19/11
Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "The film, unlike the book, never makes clear what keeps these lovers apart -- Hathaway and Sturgess seem too intimate together, too perfectly matched."(See all of Rafer Guzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 340 words, 08/19/11
Logan Hill, New York Magazine: WEAK "...the actors seem to be trying so very hard to make this film work, to charm each other and woo the audience... they make it impossible to ever like either of them."(See all of Logan Hill's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 751 words, 08/19/11
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "Scherfig and her actors are never able to sell the notion that these two are divinely matched.... 'One Day' doesn't offer much pleasure."(See all of Karina Longworth's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 691 words, 08/17/11
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: WEAK(cg) "...gets better towards the end, as the drama picks up, those relentless calendar pages seem to turn faster... By then, however, it's a case of too little, too late."(See all of Peter Howell's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 605 words, 08/19/11
Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...a rom-com with ambition, keen to actually develop the characters and to mix a few tears with the laughs.... the effort is admirable, the movie not so much..."(See all of Rick Groen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 684 words, 08/19/11
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: MODERATE(cg) "...the characters never entirely emerge.... Dex and Em become reduced to stereotypes of posh heartbreaker and lovelorn scrapper."(See all of Carrie Rickey's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 404 words, 08/19/11
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: MODERATE(cg) "For a movie seemingly designed to have this wistful, romantic arc to it, 'One Day' never quite reaches that opening 'meet cute' moment."(See all of Roger Moore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 637 words, 08/19/11
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD(cg) "...it radiates pleasing warmth.... The characters are a bit more complex and believable than the mannequins usually found in romantic comedy-drama..."(See all of Colin Covert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 492 words, 08/19/11
Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: VERY GOOD(cg) "Few films 'get' the strange, intertwining bonds of affection quite so effortlessly, although the episodic structure keeps the drama from flowing nicely."(See all of Stephen Whitty's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 529 words, 08/19/11
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...beautiful in a way that life often is, not movies.... one of the rare romantic films in which we know why the central characters are or should be in love."(See all of Mick LaSalle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 675 words, 08/19/11
Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Lone Scherfig gives the actors just enough moments for us to understand why these two don't always like each other, but always love each other."(See all of Moira Macdonald's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 527 words, 08/19/11
Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: GOOD(cg) "Scherfig still displays fine craft: The film is quietly beautiful and, occasionally, gorgeous. But she can't make the characters come alive..."(See all of Shawn Levy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 658 words, 08/19/11
Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE(cg) "...a big disappointment coming from Lone Scherfig, whose drama 'An Education' (2009) was a model of concise yet engaging storytelling."(See all of Calvin Wilson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 325 words, 08/19/11
Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: MODERATE(cg) "...the movie has the same problem as the budding couple; they're much better together than apart and there are just too many Julys in their future."(See all of Steve Persall's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 545 words, 08/18/11
Tom Long, Detroit News: FAIR(cg) "...miscasting aside, there's simply very little excitement to the film since you can see where it's going right from the start..."(See all of Tom Long's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 296 words, 08/19/11
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "Scherfig and her actors are never able to sell the notion that these two are divinely matched.... 'One Day' doesn't offer much pleasure."(See all of Karina Longworth's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 691 words, 08/17/11
Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...a shallower facsimile of the novel... but hits enough of the same notes and is handsomely packaged enough to stand fairly well on its own."(See all of Katey Rich's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 732 words, 08/19/11
Peg Aloi, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD(cg) "Hathaway shines as always, Patricia Clarkson is a marvel... Scherfig's masterful treatment of silences, surfaces, and locations is worth watching."(See all of Peg Aloi's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 145 words, 08/18/11
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: MODERATE(cg) "...slickly entertaining in the manner of a high-concept, energetic romantic comedy... But the movie maintains a sour undercurrent of emotional imbalance..."(See all of Tasha Robinson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 444 words, 08/18/11
Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: MODERATE(cg) "...two hours of watching a doe-eyed doormat pine for the man who loves her but doesn't know it... tea-cozy romanticism has turned into a kind of slow suffocation."(See all of Stephanie Zacharek's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 804 words, 08/19/11
Andrew Schenker, Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...an ultimate embrace of conventionality... ultimately undercuts the not inconsiderable accomplishments the project had worked so hard to achieve."(See all of Andrew Schenker's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 636 words, 08/14/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...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."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,130 words, 08/19/11
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: WEAK "Though the years rattle past, there's a load of them to get through, and, by the end, the title feels like an accurate measurement of the time we have spent..."(See all of Anthony Lane's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 397 words, 08/22/11
Ella Taylor, NPR: WEAK "...fatally compromised by its glib recourse to death and cancer as moral wake-up calls. Toward the end, the action takes a left turn into cheap and nasty sensation..."(See all of Ella Taylor's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 717 words, 08/18/11
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "...why do we show up for romantic movies, if not to pull for an ever after, happily or otherwise? Dialogue that played on page turns tedious on screen..."(See all of Betsy Sharkey's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 814 words, 08/19/11
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: GOOD "...anchored by its appealing leads and directed by Lone Scherfig with customary snap and polish.... its story coalesces in scraps of narrative and slivers of feeling."(See all of Justin Chang's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 995 words, 08/17/11
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "An unusual but ultimately successful piecemeal approach to romantic drama.... director Lone Scherfig has performed a bit of magic..."(See all of Kirk Honeycutt's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,162 words, 08/18/11
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "...why do we show up for romantic movies, if not to pull for an ever after, happily or otherwise? Dialogue that played on page turns tedious on screen..."(See all of Betsy Sharkey's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 814 words, 08/19/11
Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: FAIR(cg) "...a major disappointment, a sentimental romantic melodrama that mistakes kitsch for art, and confuses sentimentality with emotionalism..."(See all of Emanuel Levy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 718 words, 08/17/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...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."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,130 words, 08/19/11
23.2 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
One Day (2011)'s reviews are separated by an average 23.2 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
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Coverage:One Day (2011)'s reviews cover 97.9% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 28,319 words involume (average is 20,172 words). Length:The film's reviews average 578 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
One Day (2011) Coverage, Volume & Length (49 Reviews, reviews below)
Reviews Broke 11.4 Hours Before Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
One Day (2011)'s reviews on average broke 11.4 hours before opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is One Day (2011)'s opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
One Day (2011) (49 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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