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  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 27 m

Summary Before you can win the war on terror you need a terrorist—even if you have to invent one yourself. Moses Al Shabaz (Marchánt Davis) is a small-time Miami street preacher whose far-fetched revolutionary ideas find unexpected legitimacy when a Middle Eastern terrorist organization offers to help fund his dream of overthrowing the US govern...

Directed By: Christopher Morris

Written By: Jesse Armstrong, Sean Gray, Tony Roche, Christopher Morris

  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 27 m

The Day Shall Come

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
70
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary Before you can win the war on terror you need a terrorist—even if you have to invent one yourself. Moses Al Shabaz (Marchánt Davis) is a small-time Miami street preacher whose far-fetched revolutionary ideas find unexpected legitimacy when a Middle Eastern terrorist organization offers to help fund his dream of overthrowing the US govern...

Directed By: Christopher Morris

Written By: Jesse Armstrong, Sean Gray, Tony Roche, Christopher Morris

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
70
86% Positive
18 Reviews
14% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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83
Sep 24, 2019
Bitter and bracingly funny new political satire from British dark-comedy master Chris Morris.
By William Hughes FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 12, 2019
A weaponised comedy which concludes with real poignancy. ... The film shares with [Veep] a similarly tart and unvarnished view of the savage, sweary machinations of power and the expendable status of the powerless.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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45% Positive
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45% Mixed
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9% Negative
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75
Sep 30, 2019
The Day Shall Come is an angry film – funny at times but with an acidic underpinning.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 16, 2019
The Day Shall Come is greatest when skewering power and shining a light on grave legal overreach. That we can laugh about it is great, but it’s a sign of our own security, of how unlikely we feel that we would be targeted in the same way. For others, laughing at this movie may not be so easy.
By Monica Castillo FULL REVIEW
70
May 4, 2020
Once attuned, you’ll be rewarded with a sharply funny and oddly heartbreaking, albeit clumsily structured, indictment of our government... Armstrong’s razor-sharp trademark one-liners go a long way in saving this Day.
By Alex Saveliev FULL REVIEW
63
Sep 27, 2019
The results are mixed cinematically — crisply lensed by Marcel Zyskind, the Florida-set film looks like an average episode of “Veep,” which Morris has directing credits on. And the laughs are pretty sparse, too, despite a non-stop flow of zingers.
By Tomris Laffly FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 25, 2019
The film is an aimless, albeit sometimes funny, chronicle of absurd behavior and government ineptitude.
By Steven Scaife FULL REVIEW
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Production Company See-Saw Films, Archer Gray, BFI Film Fund, Film4, Riverstone Pictures, Third Wednesday Films
Release Date Sep 27, 2019
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating Unrated
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Tagline A Comedy Based On a Hundred True Stories
Website https://www.facebook.com/DayShallComeUK/
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