One Day
Focus Features | Release Date: August 19, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
24
Negative:
4
Watch Now
Buy on
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Expand

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAug 18, 2011
One Day is a beautiful movie, but beautiful in a way that life often is, not movies. Nothing is sudden or easy, either for the characters or for the audience, and there are no thunderbolts from the blue. Read full review
88
USA TodayClaudia PuigAug 18, 2011
One Day is an aching lovely romance, but it's also an insightful look at human potential and the search for a purposeful existence. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldConnie OgleAug 18, 2011
Director Lone Scherfig (An Education) doesn't have such luxury, but she infuses her snapshots of their relationship with humor and poignancy. Read full review
75
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanAug 18, 2011
The two actors are at their best when Emma and Dexter get emotionally naked. It's mildly enjoyable to listen to the self-deprecating banter people use to conceal anxieties, but we connect to them most deeply when they bare their souls. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAug 17, 2011
In a season of movies dumb and dumber, One Day has style, freshness, and witty bantering dialogue. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttAug 17, 2011
Danish director Lone Scherfig skillfully adapts David Nicholls' best-selling romantic novel to the screen. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn LevyAug 20, 2011
One Day, despite its attractiveness, never manages to find a way to bring the conceit fully to life. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAug 18, 2011
Sturgess, saddled with a caddish character, is less compelling, but he does provide the film's only spot of unloosed, raw emotion. Everything else feels too precisely and too compactly assembled for much impact. Read full review
67
IndieWireEric KohnAug 17, 2011
Anne Hathaway's faux British accent might be the first obvious conceit in One Day, but not its most cumbersome. That distinction belongs to the eponymous structure, a claustrophobic device that follows a pair of best friends over the course of a 22-year period, but only on many versions of July 15th. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenAug 20, 2011
The effort is admirable, the movie not so much, and yet, contrary to most pictures, it does improve towards the end. At least a little. Read full review
63
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottAug 19, 2011
A movie that wants to be a crowd-pleasing romantic comedy at times and a weighty drama at others. It ends up being an imperfect blend of both. Read full review
63
Washington PostAnn HornadayAug 18, 2011
One Day often seems too tame for its own good, as if its spirited protagonists were censoring themselves in deference to a PG-13 rating. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerAug 14, 2011
One Day conveys a real sense of the poignancy of individual lives unfolding over time, but the film's ultimate embrace of conventionality ultimately undercuts the not inconsiderable accomplishments the project had worked so hard to achieve. Read full review
More From This Movie

48 Critic Reviews

6.1 User Reviews

Details & Credits|Trailers

Current Movie Releases
By MetascoreBy User Score
1 77 Project Hail Mary
2 75 Send Help
3 73 Hoppers
4 71 The Sheep Detectives
5 68 Crime 101
SEE ALL
Essential Links
New on Amazon Prime Video
New on Netflix
Coming Soon to DVD/Blu-ray
SEE ALL