Daybreak
Newmarket Films | Release Date: February 2, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Masterfully paced and constructed, and the performances are memorable. Read full review
80
VarietyGunnar Rehlin
One of the most impressive films to come out of Sweden in the past year. Ace acting, powerful direction and engaging storylines. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
To the extent that this difficult but ultimately rewarding film has a message, it's that you can't run away from who you are. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
It maintains a strong enough sense of squirmy humanity that its characters' epiphanies and emotional growth feel both hard-earned and richly deserved. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The snappish domestic infighting is effectively staged, yet beneath its ''raw'' atmosphere Daybreak traffics in pop-sociological clichés. Read full review
63
New York PostDebra Birnbaum
Dark, depressing drama. Read full review
60
The New York TimesStephen Holden
If Daybreak weren't so powerfully acted, its accumulating anguish would be too much to bear. As it is, all three couples, especially Knut and Mona, verge on caricature. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Runge's coolly photographed, intricately plotted feature is always interesting in its execution, but disappointingly pat in its resolution. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyKim Morgan
Though the acting is uniformly excellent, especially Petren in her bilious rage, Daybreak doesn't provide anything like the cumulative catharsis of, say, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." We don't really care about these people - we just want someone to make them stop. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Strongly acted by a highly competent ensemble. Read full review
60
EmpirePatrick Peters
Shifting between bourgeois soap, tabloid parable and tale of the unexpected, this three-storied study of salvation in extremis makes for unsettling but compelling viewing. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The characters are so over-the-top with emotional pain -- that they are hardly credible as characters. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
If you're going to put us through hell, you'd better make it worth our while. Though Daybreak boasts a couple of minor insights and a compelling performance from Pernilla August, only the masochistically inclined will consider them sufficient reward. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Involving and sometimes comically bleak but never fully convincing as drama. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
A studied, overwrought look into Personal Crisis and Redemption. Read full review
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