metacritic.com: J.K. Rowling: A Year In The Life

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

68 / 100

80	Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray A Year in the Life has little to do with the movie franchise: This is a story about an unhappy single mother whose life was changed by a book. And if that's not a proper bedtime story, I don't know what is.
75	New York Post Linda Stasi The special doesn't come to life until Rowling escorts us to the apartment where she hit her very lowest point, when she and her little girl struggled to subsist on the barest essentials.
60	New York Daily News David Hinckley ABC News dusts off a reasonably interesting British documentary on "Potter" author J.K. Rowling.
60	The New York Times Mike Hale Mr. Runcie achieves an odd tone that’s largely fawning but ever so slightly bullying.