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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumClooney proves himself to be a true movie star and romantic leading man. His charm, his energy, even his ease with children (one of any adult actor’s most terrifying challenges) carry One Fine Day into irresistibility.
- 80Washington PostRita KempleyWashington PostRita KempleyHappily, Pfeiffer and Clooney, now officially a movie star, not only click, they send off sparks.
- 67Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleFor those viewers who can relate to Melanie's and Jack's lives, One Fine Day offers light-hearted romantic fun, but for younger viewers the film may not quite hit the mark.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliOne Fine Day has a few enchanting moments, such as a scene where Jack sweeps Melanie off her feet (literally), then splashes around in a large puddle of water. However, as a romantic comedy, this is a spotty affair because it's not really funny or romantic enough. Keeping the leads apart might work for something like Sleepless in Seattle, where the intention is to develop an old-fashioned, long-distance romance, but, in a movie like this -- one that's being pulled in so many directions that it's coming apart at the seams -- it's a mistake. For much of its running length, One Fine Day lacks focus and direction, and that makes it one fine mess.
- 60The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinOne Fine Day makes for sunny, pleasant fluff. Both stars are enjoyably breezy, and there's enough chemistry to deflect attention from the story's endless contrivances. The screenplay by Terrel Seltzer and Ellen Simon is full of energetic wisecracks. But it's jokey rather than actually funny most of the time.
- 60EmpireAngie ErrigoEmpireAngie ErrigoMinus delightful stars, this would be laboured indeed. Thanks to them, it scrapes along as modestly appealing fluff.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertPfeiffer looks, acts and sounds wonderful throughout all of this, and George Clooney is perfectly serviceable as a romantic lead, sort of a Mel Gibson lite. I liked them. I wanted them to get together. I wanted them to live happily ever after. The sooner the better.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannOne Fine Day is no great shakes, but it avoids being tiresome thanks to the attractiveness of the stars and to a few twists that screenwriters Terrell Seltzer and Ellen Simon offer to differentiate this from other bickering-adversaries-fall-in-love comedies. Both stars also have adorable kids who figure prominently in the plot.
- 38San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserSan Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserHere and there, a good idea or scene erupts, as when the antagonists accidentally switch cellular telephones and start taking each other's emergency calls. And Jack keeps his shrink appointment but must speak in code so his daughter won't understand. But these are anomalies and subside just as suddenly as they appear.
- A film that takes such sadistic delight in the thorough humiliation of its heroine.