Critic Reviews

• Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post

  The film feels unbelievably long at 84 minutes, and the color-drained, hand-held cinematography serves only as a reminder of just how good "Night of the Living Dead" really was.

• Joel Arnold, NPR

  A savage B-movie thriller with unrealized aspirations to profundity ...

• Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic

  Every day is gloomy in "The Day," Douglas Aarniokoski's film with a creepy, paranoid atmosphere that's more effective than the performances.

• Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

  Towards the end, you might find yourself thinking, "Well, this could have been worse." And you'll mean it as a compliment.

• Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times

  "The Day" is just good enough to engage audiences, but it falls well short of remarkable, leaving viewers wishing for a dawn that never breaks.

• Jon Caramanica, New York Times

  "The Day" cycles through bursts of horrific violence only to end much as it begins: static, hollow and vague.

• Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed

  Could definitely have benefited from twenty more minutes of story.

• Brent Simon, Shockya.com

  Take Cormac McCarthy's The Road and cross-pollinate it with a couple dozen other more aggressively low-grade genre entries and the result is this very self-serious yet narratively unoriginal offering.

• Brian Orndorf, Blu-ray.com

  Glum, poorly acted, and hard on the eyes, The Day is a flat feature with a few spikes of absurdity that push the production into unintentional camp.

• Dan Kaufman, Paste Magazine

  Once these tropes are established and have a minute or two to settle, that's when things get interesting.

• Glenn Heath Jr., Slant Magazine

  Despite being a nasty and skillful action film, Douglas Aarniokoski's film goes off the rails in the final stretch.

• John Gholson, Movies.com

  The Day's cannibalization of other, better films is its downfall; there's just not enough unique material here to nourish.

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