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58 out of 100

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7.2 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

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  • Summary: The film is a user-generated, feature-length documentary shot on a single day. Enlisted to capture a moment of the day on camera, the global community responded by submitting more than 80,000 videos to YouTube. Life in a Day brings together the most compelling footage to offer a unique experience that shows--with beauty, humor, and joyful honesty--what it's like to be alive on Earth today. (Nat Geo Movies)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 18
  3. Negative: 2 out of 18
  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    Jul 28, 2011
    88
    Life in a Day is, without exaggeration, a profound achievement.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    Jul 29, 2011
    60
    There are dull spots, as with any other day, yet "Life" aims to be, and occasionally is, like a YouTube-y "Our Town," giving a sense of what it is to be alive on planet Earth.
  3. NPR
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    Jul 29, 2011
    35
    Produced in partnership with YouTube and distributed by National Geographic Films, the documentary Life in a Day is offspring with the worst genetic traits of both: narcissism on a global scale, speckled with pretty pictures. In a world without books or magazines, this is the movie people would watch in the waiting room at the dentist's office.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. grandpajoe6191
    6
    Youtube's "Life in a Day" has too much flaws; it spills in racism, self-deprivation, sexism, and death. Kevin Mcdonald here does a beautiful job in fusing these parts together but fails to cover up these cons. However, after watching this documentary I realized how many things happened in July 24th, 2010, and I'm happy with that.… Expand
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  2. AKoreanCritic
    6
    The movie is decent. "Life in Day" is literally a 2010 July 24th time capsule. You can observe everything, all the beautiful sights and events, but that's the farthest reach the movie will take you. I would recommend this film to artists, I guess? R) 6.0… Expand
    • 1 of 3 users said yes
  3. jimmytancredi
    5
    It is a rundown of the major human emotions, the singularity of each one and the variegated cultures. From the conventional happiness, to the joy disguised as everyday life and also of the anguish, sorrow, and especially the incredible divergences in the world. It's splendid to see and hear many-sided world views, beliefs, expectations, and even fears from people in such a jovial manner. I finished the flick with a antagonistic perception, that we are very different from each other dissimilar, but only flimsily. Inherently, we all have those days, life, longing, and suffering experienced by almost the same things. Basically we are all human, connected by the same joys.… Expand
    • 0 of 2 users said yes

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