Every Day (2010)

Critic Reviews

• Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

  There are sharp moments throughout.

• Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

  It's a recognizable situation that should be easy to sympathize with. Yet the movie makes it hard for most of us to recognize ourselves in this couple or sympathize with their struggles.

• Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

  Real life isn't choreographed for maximum impact, it's messy and unpredictable. At its best, so is "Every Day."

• Kyle Smith, New York Post

  A 42-minute TV soap has more story than this limp and familiar tale of domestic woe.

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  Very well written and acted, Every Day feels like a glorified television drama softened with comic and surreal trimmings, with a mildly upbeat ending appended.

• Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

  What makes this intriguing, yet woefully uneven film so relatable is that there is nothing about Ned's experience that seems extreme.

• Peter Canavese, Groucho Reviews

  There's something oddly remote about Every Day, which plays like a double-wide version of a perfectly acceptable Showtime pilot. [Blu-ray]

• David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

  ...wears out its welcome long before the end credits roll...

• Jules Brenner, Cinema Signals

  Seems like a first draft that piles up the characters and their issues without assembling them into a dramatic whole. Someone was in a rush to get the cameras rolling.

• Glenn Heath Jr., Slant Magazine

  Writer-Director Richard Levine was one of the minds behind Nip/Tuck, so it's not surprising that his debut feature film is branded with the television medium's worst impulses.

• S. Jhoanna Robledo, Common Sense Media

  Complicated relationships fail to enliven grown-up drama.

• Shirley Sealy, Film Journal International

  Low-suds soap opera about the trendy "sandwich generation" travails of a hip, well-off New York family.

• Brent Simon, Screen International

  A film of pleasantly half-sketched domestic noodling that comes across as inconsequential because it never really tries to bring substantive conflict to the fore.

• Matthew Nestel, Boxoffice Magazine

  Auds will be wise to the contrived metaphors and realize there's not much going on below the surface except stock discourse.

• Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

  An unrelentingly depressing drama about a family drenched in disappointment, despair, anger, and loneliness.

• JimmyO, iamROGUE

  Whether it is dealing with difficult family members, difficult co-workers, or life in general, Every Day tells a story for nearly everyone.

• Marshall Fine, Hollywood & Fine

  Swims in mock profundity and has the feel of a movie made specifically for a forgiving festival audience.

• Scott Tobias, AV Club

  Schreiber approaches the role with a seriousness that lacks joy or any other colorful inflection, as if every second of his character's life, even the pleasurable ones, is weighing on him like an albatross.

• Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com

  Levine didn't need hysterics to find an appropriate ending, with the established atmosphere of chaos and regret interesting enough to carry matters all the way to the final frame.

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