Everyday
Sundance Selects | Release Date: November 22, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
7
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlNov 19, 2013
Michael Winterbottom's wise and involving Everyday specializes in unscripted-feeling moments that ache of life. Read full review
80
Total FilmKevin HarleyNov 12, 2013
A slice of raggedy realism with ultra-naturalistic performances. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 12, 2013
A valuable, meticulously observed and wonderfully acted social-realist feature about a family under pressure. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineDavid Lee DallasNov 18, 2013
While the film charts its protagonist's gradual progression toward a renewed sense of agency and freedom, it rarely indulges in lengthy or even linear narrative arcs. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen HoldenNov 21, 2013
Moment by moment, it all adds up. The scenes of the family huddling and hugging, greeting and parting, and reaffirming primal bonds are quietly moving. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNov 21, 2013
Filmed — patiently, beautifully — over that same length of time, the film’s day-to-day aches are quiet and lovingly rendered. Read full review
60
Time OutDavid FearNov 19, 2013
Even with the actors’ laudable work—especially Simm, who finally shakes off the notion that he’s a poor man’s Simon Pegg—there’s not enough going on past the temporal trick to make the humanistic elements pop. Gimmick aside, the title is regrettably apropos. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonDave CalhounNov 12, 2013
The unusually extended shooting period and Winterbottom’s decision to cast siblings as the kids make for a strangely intimate and powerful depiction of time passing and the peaks and troughs of childhood. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloNov 20, 2013
Movies don’t necessarily have to tell stories, but if narrative is eschewed in favor of an unvarnished portrait of ordinary life, it’s best to cheat a little and make ordinary life feel extraordinary. Michael Winterbottom’s Everyday refuses to stoop to such measures; for better and for worse — mostly for worse — it sticks to the mundane promise of its title. Read full review
40
The DissolveSam AdamsNov 21, 2013
Perhaps fittingly, part of the problem with Everyday is that it’s too short, both in micro and macro terms. Ninety-odd minutes isn’t long enough to make the full weight of the elapsed time register. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeNov 12, 2013
As the years go by and the kids grow — perhaps the only real benefit of Winterbottom’s approach — time begins to run together, making it all too easy for the mind to wander. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinNov 12, 2013
For all its innovativeness, Everyday has the rhythms and intrigue of a not-very-interesting family’s Christmas letters. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyNov 12, 2013
An admirable idea in theory proves to be a real slog to sit through in Everyday. Read full review
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