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
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13
Negative:
6
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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
60
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
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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
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