Scherfig's follow-up to the excellent An Education is as pleasing visually but is a considerably shallower affair. The novel's conceit of revisiting the same day each year over twenty years works surprisingly well on screen - an one of the simple pleasures of the film is the varied appearances of the animated datelines - and the short, episodic nature of the narrative gives the otherwise thin material some drive. Jim Sturgess gives a terrific performance as Dexter and handles his character's arc extremely well, but Anne Hathaway seems mis-cast as Emma and her work varies wildly from scene to scene (and not just the accent). The dialogue in the early scenes is insufferably smug and self-consciously witty, but the film does gain more emotional sensibility as it progresses. One Day is a cynically female-targeted film - all men are wrecks who rely on women, Sturgess gets his shirt off a lot - and lacks real depth and conviction overall.
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