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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperLife in a Day 2020 is an affirmation of life, of the simple joys experienced by citizens of the planet over the course of a single day. We’d never have met any of them without this film, and we’re grateful for the opportunity to get to know them a little bit.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonSan Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonThere are so many rich, colorful scenes that it’s a worthy watch just as an ethnographic record of our planet in a moment of time.
- 60Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenLos Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenEven as the concept of crowdsourcing isn’t as novel as it was at the time of the film’s predecessor and the 90-minute running time can feel unnecessarily expansive given the repetition of those pandemic-related sequences, “Life in a Day 2020” nevertheless serves as a telling time capsule. The world has never felt so compact.
- 60The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinMacdonald and his team pull out enough affecting stories to hold your interest, whose scopes range from sweeping to intimate.
- 50Screen DailyAllan HunterScreen DailyAllan HunterThe material may be slicker but the novelty of the format has faded.
- 40VarietyGuy LodgeVarietyGuy LodgeLife in a Day 2020 is quick to fall back on tidy montage methods — grouped shots of babies being born, skydivers jumping from planes, believers grouped in prayer, mourners in cemeteries — that rather strenuously force a sense of global communion, rather than seeking and stressing life’s more diverse and disorienting juxtapositions.
- 33IndieWireChristian BlauveltIndieWireChristian BlauveltYou’re not likely to find a more jarring — and ultimately exhausting — collision of high pretension and low execution at Sundance this year than the crowdsourced YouTube doc Life in a Day 2020.