One Week and a Day
Oscilloscope | Release Date: April 28, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
RogerEbert.comNick AllenApr 28, 2017
In the long list of movies about death, this is one of the most original in recent memory, if for its emotional delicacy in sparing us hollow, tear-gushing grandiosity, and for its attitude on life: In most movies about grief, you are waiting for the characters to cry. This is a marvelous story about loss in which you are waiting for them to laugh. Read full review
90
Village VoiceNick SchagerApr 26, 2017
Rambling in the best manner imaginable, it’s an amusingly heartbreaking (and hopeful) portrait of misery’s messiness. Read full review
88
TheWrapBen CrollApr 28, 2017
One Week and a Day succeeds in recreating that precise feeling, as hard to articulate as it is commonly felt, where exhaustion wears down any line between emotions. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijApr 27, 2017
The strength of Asaph Polonsky’s debut feature, One Week and a Day (Shavua Ve Yom), is that it’s actually a bittersweet comedy-drama in which the pain is as real as the frequent chuckles. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranApr 27, 2017
One Week and a Day keeps an impeccable balance between absurdity and sadness, comedy and heartbreak. Increasingly outrageous but always plausible, it applies its pitiless, pitch black sense of humor to a very particular situation. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineKeith WatsonApr 23, 2017
The film is a comedy that depicts the difficult period of transition from mourning back into normal life. Read full review
70
VarietyBen KenigsbergApr 27, 2017
This sentimental film takes things one step at a time. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinApr 27, 2017
The comedy in One Week and a Day comes from confusion, ineptitude, and alienation. It comes from people’s defenses being way, way down. It doesn’t cheapen the tragedy. It grounds it, sometimes in the mud. Read full review
58
The PlaylistBradley WarrenApr 28, 2017
One Week And A Day is at times a genuinely funny diversion amongst the Critic’s Week selection. However, a sentimental streak and a series of precocious narrative turns diminish the impact of the film. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonMay 10, 2017
It’s brilliant, and extremely moving. One Week and a Day has its moments, just not enough of them. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerApr 27, 2017
It meanders from start to finish, searching for a tone that it never quite finds. Read full review
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