Day Shift
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): August 12, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
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14
Mixed:
13
Negative:
6
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90
Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdoñaAug 11, 2022
Day Shift is a damned delight. One would be tempted to call it the best horror comedy of 2022 so far, but it mixes so many genres it’s more like 2022’s best horror-buddy-cop-cartel-drama-bounty-hunter-martial-arts-action comedy (so far). Read full review
88
PolygonMatthew EssaryAug 18, 2022
Day Shift’s peculiar blend of action, comedy, and horror doesn’t feel like a choice made with the intention of bringing in the widest possible audience. This film’s mixing of cinematic flavors harkens back to a time when big releases could have highly specific, off-kilter vibes, most likely aimed at a niche audience. Read full review
80
Screen RantPatrice WitherspoonAug 11, 2022
With stuntman J.J. Perry behind the camera, Day Shift is a killer upgrade to vampire lore and a damn good time. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubRichard NewbyAug 11, 2022
Suffice it to say that Day Shift is not exactly breaking new ground, but it’s a damn good time for a night at home on the couch: sometimes all you need is Jamie Foxx in a Hawaiian shirt and Snoop Dogg as a black cowboy, slaughtering hundreds of vampires with swords, shotguns, gatling guns, garlic grenades, and decapitating roundhouse kicks. Read full review
70
TheWrapKarama HorneAug 11, 2022
Day Shift doesn’t offer much in the way of surprises, but audiences whose taste runs to horror comedies that are heavy on action and light on plot may enjoy sinking their teeth into this one. Read full review
70
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAug 11, 2022
Jamie Foxx might have top billing, but right there beside him are the professional contortionists whose eye-popping moves are more commonly seen in Las Vegas showrooms than on movie screens. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeAug 11, 2022
A rambunctious, strange and occasionally humorous action-thriller-comedy. Read full review
70
Paste MagazineKevin Fox, Jr.Aug 11, 2022
Day Shift’s gory, cheesy, vampire-hunting comedy-action film starring Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco is exactly what you expect, and that’s a good thing. Read full review
67
UproxxVince ManciniSep 3, 2022
it’s a silly action comedy where the action is actually fun, the jokes mostly land, and neither detracts from the other. All in all a reasonably fun streamer. Read full review
67
ConsequenceAl ShipleyAug 11, 2022
Day Shift is one of Netflix’s better action flicks, even if that’s faint praise given the streamer’s weak track record. Perry’s action scenes are fast-paced, with inventive flourishes like the moments where combatants pass a mirror and the vampires’ reflections can’t be seen...But the comic relief is hit-and-miss. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattAug 11, 2022
Shift looks and feels low-budget, from its slapdash effects to its sketched-in script, though that also feels like kind of the point: It might be bright daylight, but it's always midnight-movie time somewhere. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzAug 12, 2022
Everyone in this cast does their best to strike the right balance between seeming in on the joke and acting like all of this bloody absurdity is normal. Read full review
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The Associated PressJake CoyleAug 11, 2022
Yet the slapdash vibe of “Day Shift” has its charms. It’s built almost perfectly to be the kind of thing you might, after some scrolling, absentmindedly click to watch on Netflix and end of watching for its sheer watchability. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineJake ColeAug 11, 2022
Day Shift’s first half is an unexpectedly focused, consistent pleasure, while the second sags under the weight of recycled set pieces. Read full review
60
NMENick LevineAug 12, 2022
As vampire movies go, this one doesn’t slay, but it has enough thrills, spills and playful charm not to feel like a grave mistake. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekAug 12, 2022
Day Shift delivers everything it promises, which isn’t all that much. But Foxx goes above and beyond the call of duty, seemingly without even trying. Before you know it, his shift, and ours, is over, and the time has passed painlessly enough. Read full review
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EmpireJohn NugentAug 12, 2022
The action is well-shot, and the buddy dynamic is fun. There’s plenty here that’s familiar, but it’s actually not a terrible way to spend a couple of hours with your Familiar. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanAug 11, 2022
At heart, though, it’s a knowingly eccentric goof of a movie, to the point that it’s hard, for a while, not to find it agreeable, even as you register what a preposterous piece of fluff it is. Unfortunately, it’s also an arduous piece of fluff. It’s full of blow-you-away action scenes, and it’s also full of rules — a satirical vampire cosmology that’s fun, until it starts to be just convoluted enough to give you a headache, especially when the rules are applied as inconsistently as they are here. Read full review
58
The PlaylistNick AllenAug 15, 2022
The story might play out like a missed opportunity in some ways, as it’s staggering that a movie in which Jamie Foxx fights vampires can be so set on killing its fun with backstory. But while the worst parts of Day Shift want to be cute with all of this, Perry’s movie is saved by the inner bad-ass that comes out when it matters most. Read full review
58
ColliderRoss BonaimeAug 12, 2022
Yet even though it never quite reaches its full potential, Day Shift is enjoyable for the aspects it does want to focus on, even though it’s hard not to wish it would investigate the larger world further. Read full review
50
We Got This CoveredScott CampbellAug 12, 2022
Day Shift just about gets by on its impressive action sequences, but everything else about the vampire horror comedy feels more than a little lacking. Read full review
50
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaAug 11, 2022
As far as Netflix movies go, Day Shift is inoffensive enough for your viewing pleasure. But I wanted more. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 11, 2022
Unremarkable and disposable. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 11, 2022
The best thing “Day Shift” has going for it is the best things the dopey ’80s films had going for them — a willingness not to take itself too seriously. And that only gets you so far. But who knows, maybe in 40 years this will look better in retrospect, too. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 12, 2022
The crude, tedious action sequences with their video-game aesthetic are an incredible trial and there is nothing interesting or glamorous about these vampires at all. Read full review
40
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyAug 11, 2022
And I hate to ask for this, in a world where an excess of lore has been the downfall of so many projects, but Day Shift lacks any sense of context to what exactly this vampire hunter union is or does. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyAug 11, 2022
With its meathead sensibility, Day Shift is always most comfortable hacking and slashing. These set-tos can be reasonably tasty, but everything else? Way more seasoning, please. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyAug 16, 2022
Jamie Foxx is always interesting to watch. His latest movie isn’t. With “Day Shift,” reach for the garlic, not the remote. Read full review
38
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiAug 11, 2022
Lucky “Day Shift” has an Oscar winner in Foxx, who’s appealingly heroic, and gags about a burning sensation on characters’ privates. Read full review
35
CNNBrian LowryAug 12, 2022
It’s the kind of star-driven vehicle that yields obvious benefits to Netflix even if, qualitatively speaking, it doesn’t deserve to see the light of day. Read full review
30
ABC NewsPeter TraversAug 12, 2022
A slumming Jamie Foxx is cool to the max as a vampire hunter gunning down bloodsuckers in sunny LA. But you leave this goofy but mostly godawful action-comedy feeling pummeled, beaten down by an avalanche of sound and fury signifying the usual nothing. Read full review
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerAug 30, 2022
The scriptwriters did Perry no favours. Lengthy swaths of dialogue are consumed by tedious exposition on vampire types and the ways they can be killed. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleChris VognarAug 11, 2022
Day Shift pauses for a promising concept every now and then before zooming off to its next helping of amped-up gore. The graphic violence is never terribly disturbing, mostly because it’s rendered with cartoonish exaggeration. Read full review
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