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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100RogerEbert.comNick AllenRogerEbert.comNick AllenIn the long list of movies about death, this is one of the most original in recent memory, if for its emotional delicacy in sparing us hollow, tear-gushing grandiosity, and for its attitude on life: In most movies about grief, you are waiting for the characters to cry. This is a marvelous story about loss in which you are waiting for them to laugh.
- 90Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerRambling in the best manner imaginable, it’s an amusingly heartbreaking (and hopeful) portrait of misery’s messiness.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranOne Week and a Day keeps an impeccable balance between absurdity and sadness, comedy and heartbreak. Increasingly outrageous but always plausible, it applies its pitiless, pitch black sense of humor to a very particular situation.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe strength of Asaph Polonsky’s debut feature, One Week and a Day (Shavua Ve Yom), is that it’s actually a bittersweet comedy-drama in which the pain is as real as the frequent chuckles.
- 75Slant MagazineKeith WatsonSlant MagazineKeith WatsonThe film is a comedy that depicts the difficult period of transition from mourning back into normal life.
- 70New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe comedy in One Week and a Day comes from confusion, ineptitude, and alienation. It comes from people’s defenses being way, way down. It doesn’t cheapen the tragedy. It grounds it, sometimes in the mud.
- 70VarietyBen KenigsbergVarietyBen KenigsbergThis sentimental film takes things one step at a time.
- 58The PlaylistBradley WarrenThe PlaylistBradley WarrenOne Week And A Day is at times a genuinely funny diversion amongst the Critic’s Week selection. However, a sentimental streak and a series of precocious narrative turns diminish the impact of the film.
- 50The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerIt meanders from start to finish, searching for a tone that it never quite finds.