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One Day is just a gimmicky "new" way of doing an old-fashioned love story. But we'll hear much more of Sturgess, Hathaway, and Lone Scherfig.
It's what a Nicholas Sparks movie would be if it were aimed at grown women rather than teenage girls.
The result is a rom-com with ambition, keen to actually develop the characters and to mix a few tears with the laughs. Well, the effort is admirable, the movie not so much.
Miscasting aside, there's simply very little excitement to the film since you can see where it's going -- chances are even just by reading this review -- right from the start.
Director Lone Scherfig, working from Nicholls's screenplay, takes a big step back here from An Education, her last film
Few films "get" the strange, intertwining bonds of affection quite so effortlessly, although the episodic structure keeps the drama from flowing nicely.
An average romantic dramedy, 'One Day' tips its hand so early in the game that you won't be a bit surprised by anything that ensues.
...you can't help feeling this dreary tale could have done with a bit of fancy editing or narrative reconstruction.
The most entertaining and engrossing romantic film to hit theaters in ages...
The leads work well together but are held back by cheap sentimentalism when we should be on a journey with the characters.
Such a simple and small premise would and should yield a simple and small movie -- something not so heavy and epic, but more lovely and amazing.
Sherfig's visual knack is better than she realizes; she should stop dressing it up within an inch of its life.
Danish director Lone Scherfig (An Education) deliberately veers away from comedy to deliver a surprisingly earthy, soulful romance.
It's a profoundly moving book. Still, the movie is strangely remote, and straining for tears.
A frothy cappuccino of a film with lots of tears, quivering lips and cathartic embraces and little substance.
It doesn't quite deliver on its promise, but this remains a witty, touching and largely enjoyable adaptation.
What should've been an epic romance, a challenger to The Notebook, becomes a melancholy, disconnected drama, despite the talent on display.
The most desperate, cloying weepie seen in many a long time.
The story is told in a very episodic manner, but Lone Scherfig crafts it well and the film is well edited to keep it feeling as one. It feels exciting and unexpected, even though you know really it never is.
There's not really a chance to go very deep here, but the two leads are so strong that they make us believe in them anyway.
Despite the patchiness and the heavily signposted and melodramatic plot points, One Day concludes magnificently.
It doesn't really work. I still cried.
You are hereby advised to ignore the bad reviews and check out this fairly stunning meditation on life, love, and friendship.
Thin, superficial and sentimental.
A bittersweet love story. Due to its fragmented structure, the dramatic arc never seems satisfying enough, although Rachel Portman's beautiful score weaves a melodic rainbow through the exposition
A disaster, a dour When Harry Meets Sally.
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