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Everyday

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United Kingdom · 2012
2h 0m
Director Michael Winterbottom
Starring Shirley Henderson, John Simm, Shaun Kirk, Robert Kirk
Genre Drama

Karen, a mother of four, must raise her children alone while their father serves a prison sentence for drug smuggling. Filmed in real time over a period of five years, Everyday follows the struggles of a working class family in Scotland with heartbreaking realism.

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Slant Magazine by

While the film charts its protagonist's gradual progression toward a renewed sense of agency and freedom, it rarely indulges in lengthy or even linear narrative arcs.

60

Time Out London by Dave Calhoun

The unusually extended shooting period and Winterbottom’s decision to cast siblings as the kids make for a strangely intimate and powerful depiction of time passing and the peaks and troughs of childhood.

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Time Out by David Fear

Even with the actors’ laudable work—especially Simm, who finally shakes off the notion that he’s a poor man’s Simon Pegg—there’s not enough going on past the temporal trick to make the humanistic elements pop. Gimmick aside, the title is regrettably apropos.

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The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo

Movies don’t necessarily have to tell stories, but if narrative is eschewed in favor of an unvarnished portrait of ordinary life, it’s best to cheat a little and make ordinary life feel extraordinary. Michael Winterbottom’s Everyday refuses to stoop to such measures; for better and for worse — mostly for worse — it sticks to the mundane promise of its title.

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Variety by Peter Debruge

As the years go by and the kids grow — perhaps the only real benefit of Winterbottom’s approach — time begins to run together, making it all too easy for the mind to wander.

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