Everyday Reviews
Daily Telegraph
For all its innovativeness, Everyday has the rhythms and intrigue of a not-very-interesting family's Christmas letters.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Reel Film Reviews
...hopelessly uninvolving for much of its brief-yet-not-brief-enough running time.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
ViewLondon
It's ultimately let down by its resolutely minimalist approach to both plot and dialogue.
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| Original Score: 2/5
This is London
The performances are suitably naturalistic but the script is weak. It often feels like a lazy, if worthy, attempt to convince middle-class audiences that prisoners are human beings.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Irish Times
Utilising fluid shots of the English countryside set to one of Michael Nyman's most dynamic scores, Winterbottom makes something surprisingly lyrical of the non-story
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| Original Score: 4/5
What Culture
An affable kitchen sink drama distinguished by astonishing turns from the kids Michael Winterbottom watched grow over five years.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Quickflix
Everyday might be [Michael Winterbottom's] most ambitious yet, even if it feels like his most modest.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
This is London
This could have been your average prison drama, all nasty warders and slamming doors. But it's not.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Sun Online
[A] resolutely realistic drama about a prisoner and his family visits.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Guardian [UK]
This is a strange and stirring film, which combines a Malick-ish concern with the emotional import of nature with a rare charm and levity. Everyday is a red letter treat.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Express
It is a sensitive, understated film but it does require a good deal of patience on the part of the viewer.
Sky Movies
With each chapter covering no more than a few days a year, mainly around her prison visits or his rare days on release, the pair create a credibly stagnant relationship. Forced to snatch whatever intimacy they can, their frustration is palpable.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Financial Times
It's often affecting; sometimes gently luminous; finally ever so slightly "so what?"
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| Original Score: 3/5
Total Film
Although detractors might wish for something more profound, capturing the poignant pointlessness of life passing by feels like a noble pursuit in itself.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Little White Lies
Heartbreaking but never hysterical, sage but never stodgy, challenging but never confusing.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticA strangely intimate and powerful depiction of time passing and the peaks and troughs of childhood.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Flick Filosopher
The sense that we're peeking in on the life of a family under exceptional stress is profound...
Observer [UK]
It's a sad, undramatic, well observed slice of minimalist realism, an interesting experiment in helping us to share the experience of time slowly passing. But little more.
The List
It deserves its cinematic release, thanks to its lingering, poetic-realist images of uncluttered Norfolk landscapes and to Michael Nyman's yearning score.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Guardian [UK]
Another great success for the endlessly creative and productive Winterbottom.
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| Original Score: 4/5
