A Perfect Day

  • 2015


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Positive Reviews 38
Negative reviews 5
Average Rating 3.3/5
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3.2
On a moment to moment basis, A Perfect Day is reasonably engaging, mostly because of its novel milieu ... Av Club
2.0
Zaid Saads lethargy doesnt really makemuch sense, and his character is too weakly drawn to deserve any empathy. Screen Daily
3.5
This is basically a shaggy dog story about hope and failure, about the attempt to fix a small leak when the whole dam looks ready to burst A Perfect D .. Screen Daily
2.3
Nonetheless, the actors performance has a lived in sense of wry despondency and resignation that, if never quite making the purgatorial proceedings en .. Paste Magazine
3.8
They say that war is hell.War relief doesnt look like any kind of picnic either, and since even before Ernest Hemingway drove a WWI ambulance, stories .. Rogerebert
3.0
There is a lingering note of melancholy throughout the film, and it earns every bit of it. The Young Folks
4.0
A lot is being saved by villagers in case they need to hang anyone maybe even Del Toro and Robbins, if they dont stop poking around and asking questio .. Ny Daily News
2.5
Every other Hollywood action movie tells its audience that men are competent, funny and interesting while women are something less than that; to see i .. The Globe And Mail
4.0
Mambrus compassion for the boy is very touching.I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely with no extraordinary power, reconstitu .. Spirituality And Practice
3.1
The picture settles into its long, frustrating metaphor for getting ANYthing done in a place where the enmity stretches back hundreds of years.But the .. Rogers Movie Nation
3.5
Its the English language debut of director Fernando Leon de Aranoa (Mondays in the Sun), and he brings a funky vibe to the effort, which makes a creat .. Blu Ray
2.0
In the waning days of the Balkan conflict, five international aid workers are pulled into an increasingly absurd and complicated mission to hoist a de .. Chicago Reader
3.5
Dark comedies set during wartime can often be a hard sell tonally, but A Perfect Day works better than other recent attempts like Bill Murrays Rock th .. Film Journal
3.0
They have no rope, little time and plenty of bureaucracy to deal with.What should be a simple job bloats into farce. The Guardian
3.5
What the film does well is to immerse us in the tragic weirdness of wartime logic, where nothing works as we would expect.Its a strong, engaging film .. Smh
4.0
Benicio Del Toro, right, with Olga Kurylenko, Melanie Thierry and Eldar Residovic in the Bosnian war film A Perfect Day.Photo: Madman Spanish writer d .. Smh
1.5
Sometimes, though, without the do gooders ever learning of the good news, fate or the gods or just ironic dumb luck gets the job done. Reel Talk Reviews
3.2
The film takes flight in its final scene, but its too little too late.B Ew
2.0
The film may be scattershot and odd, but it needs to be odder still. New Yorker
3.1
The film finally seems conspicuously at odds with itself, neither funny nor impassioned enough to pass as an accomplished vision of transnational welf .. Slant Magazine
3.0
One lesson is that these aid workers need to carry better, stronger rope. The New York Times
4.0
(One unintentional bit of bleakness: the reminder that 1995 is 20 years ago.) Flickfilosopher
2.5
First and foremost, it isnt very funny.The humor is there on paper, but it ends up emptily quippy and gag filled rather deriving the jokes from situat .. Blogs Indie Wire
3.0
Tipping its hat to antiwar screen comedies that came out of the counterculture movement like Catch 22 and MASH with a dash of the mordant absurdism of .. Hollywood Reporter
2.5
Though beautifully filmed in high mountain areas that lend an arresting visual crispness, A Perfect Day is a regrettable meander through standard anti .. Los Angeles Times
3.0
Hardly the most uplifting film of 2016, but does cast a caustic spell that carries it a long way. Herald Sun
4.0
This shaggy, likeable film from director Fernando Len de Aranoa chronicles 24 obstacle ridden hours in the life of some international aid workers. Now Toronto
4.0
Who says you need bullets and violence to depict the horrors of war Guided by an armoury of pragmatism, common sense and dark humour, Fernando Leon de .. Urban Cine File
3.5
Benicio Del Toro has the basset hound look of a beast you can trust or, at least, hell happily admit when hes lying.Hes the right man for a rotten wor .. La Weekly
3.0
If youre a big Del Toro fan, its a good chance to see him as the lead, which is all too rare. Abc
3.5
Since it feels so realistic and is populated with lively characters, the film is thoroughly entertaining, even if it only barely seems to crack the su .. Contact Music
4.0
This wonderful little film, directed by Fernando Leon de Aranoa and set somewhere in the Balkans in 1996, is extremely witty and light on its feet, ye .. Wsj
3.5
Stunning photography and powerfully staged moments of genuine tension assisted by a thumping rock soundtrack keep the viewer engaged throughout, even .. Scmp
3.0
Like its subjects, the movie fails to accomplish all that much, but it does more good than harm. Straight
3.0
The refusal to sugarcoat or overpraise its fearless do gooders is itself noble and useful, and at its best A Perfect Day relishes in portraying charac .. Metro New York
2.5
Even if it feels tonally awkward, its a risk in a movie without too many. Under The Radar Mag
4.0
Spanish director Fernando Leon de Aranoas grit bomb comedy, A Perfect Day subjects aid workers in the post war Balkans of 1995 to drip drip drip absur .. New City Film
3.0
A Perfect Day is a war story told on a small scale.Its all the more powerful for its subtlety. Toronto Sun
3.5
A Perfect Day is by no means a perfect movie, its drama ragged at time and its comedy a little flat in places. Honey Cutts Hollywood
2.5
The movies got a great concept, and Benicio Del Toro is terrific, but the black comedy tone feels off from the very beginning.With Tim Robbins, Olga K .. Heral
3.8
On the other hand, this is one of those rare, thoughtful war movies that doesnt emphasize brutality. Seattle Times
4.0
But, for the viewer, it is a way to humanise a war that may have played out on our tv screens, but happened very far away in soundbytes. Iol Co Za
3.8
The ridiculousness of that situation plays out throughout the film, its roots growing out of the macabre hilarity of Catch 22, that great American nov .. Sandiego Union Tribune
3.1
We see lots of shots of the aid workers two trucks hurtling back and forth across the landscape, and the movie often seems to be just as aimless. Madison Movie
4.0
A horrific event, but routine considering the setting is the Bosnia Herzegovina civil war. Its Just Movies
3.8
Getting rid of a corpse sounds like it would be an easy job, but nothing is that simple in the war torn Balkans. Ny 1
3.0
That the tension exists keeps the film moving, just not moving fast or purposefully enough. Easy Reader News
4.4
Even if youre an outsider just trying to do some good, youre putting yourself at risk. Entertainment Sun Times



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