Every Day

Missed half the film as eyes were busy rolling.

Oh yes, this is an eat-your-veg personal development class, delivered with sledgehammer subtlety.

The premise suggests it should be a horror movie but instead we are presented with a warped story about high school romance.

You have to just go with it, and not break the butterfly of its idea on the wheel of derision.

Sure, there are plenty of moral and conceptual ideas that remain unexplored, and having set up the premise, the film doesn't quite know how to end. But none of that desperately matters if you're a young viewer with a taste for paranormal romance.

Not many teen romances use high-concept fantasy to probe the nature of self. But despite its fascinating conceit - and strong opening scenes - Every Day is undone by blandness.

This movie treats teens with humanity and will give families a lot to talk about after seeing it

it's refreshing to see a movie about an issue as narratively complex as this that doesn't get itself tied in knots about it.

Feels like it skirts around the interesting stuff - the exploration of what it means to be rootless, cut free of gender and family - in favour of playing up the teen dream "instalove" aspects of the tale.

[T]he blandness, boredom, and eventual weirdness possess it all to take one step forward and many, many steps back.