A Perfect Day

"Tipping its hat to antiwar screen comedies that came out of the counterculture movement like Catch-22 and MASH (...) the good-looking film’s humor is low-key to a fault, and its characters don't always generate the sparks that the script intends" 

"Despite the appreciably restrained, low-key approach, the character-driven humor never finds a proper groove (...) The film has to overcome more than a few flat" 

"There’s not much of a story, which wouldn’t be bad if there was something other than blasts of music filling the longueurs (...) [It] is a movie of moments, some quite fine" 

"A regrettable meander through standard antiwar sentiments." 

"De Aranoa gets off some very authentic-looking tableaus (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" 

"[A] well-meant, but wobbly, tonal mishmash about the tragi-comic bureaucracy of post-conflict (...) Inconsistency is A Perfect Day’s biggest problem (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)" 

"It’s M.A.S.H. in Bosnia (...) Spanish director Fernando Leon de Aranoa doesn’t take quite such a desecratory line as that evergreen Altman classic, but he does aim some refreshing potshots at a few taboos"