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Daybreak
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60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
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  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    90
    Masterfully paced and constructed, and the performances are memorable.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Gunnar Rehlin
    80
    One of the most impressive films to come out of Sweden in the past year. Ace acting, powerful direction and engaging storylines.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    75
    To the extent that this difficult but ultimately rewarding film has a message, it's that you can't run away from who you are.
  4. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    70
    It maintains a strong enough sense of squirmy humanity that its characters' epiphanies and emotional growth feel both hard-earned and richly deserved.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    67
    The snappish domestic infighting is effectively staged, yet beneath its ''raw'' atmosphere Daybreak traffics in pop-sociological clichés.
  6. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Debra Birnbaum
    63
    Dark, depressing drama.
  7. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    Runge's coolly photographed, intricately plotted feature is always interesting in its execution, but disappointingly pat in its resolution.
  8. Empire
    Reviewed by: Patrick Peters
    60
    Shifting between bourgeois soap, tabloid parable and tale of the unexpected, this three-storied study of salvation in extremis makes for unsettling but compelling viewing.
  9. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Kim Morgan
    60
    Though the acting is uniformly excellent, especially Petren in her bilious rage, Daybreak doesn't provide anything like the cumulative catharsis of, say, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." We don't really care about these people - we just want someone to make them stop.
  10. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    60
    Strongly acted by a highly competent ensemble.
  11. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    60
    If Daybreak weren't so powerfully acted, its accumulating anguish would be too much to bear. As it is, all three couples, especially Knut and Mona, verge on caricature.
  12. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    50
    The characters are so over-the-top with emotional pain -- that they are hardly credible as characters.
  13. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    If you're going to put us through hell, you'd better make it worth our while. Though Daybreak boasts a couple of minor insights and a compelling performance from Pernilla August, only the masochistically inclined will consider them sufficient reward.
  14. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    50
    Involving and sometimes comically bleak but never fully convincing as drama.
  15. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Melissa Anderson
    40
    A studied, overwrought look into Personal Crisis and Redemption.
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