A film of tremendous vision and beauty.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020

A satisfying 92 minutes.

| Mar 1, 2007

There is much warmth and reconciliation in the final act, indicative of the movie's goodheartedness.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 26, 2006

There's an audience for this sort of mush, but don't count me in the mix.

| Original Score: C | Jun 3, 2006

On a Clear Day isn't so much a bad film as it is a thoroughly familiar and unnecessary one.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2006

One thing that sets On a Clear Day apart from other, like-minded films -- besides its spectacular Scottish location footage -- is the first-rate cast.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 2, 2006

Unlike my colleagues, I wiped my eyes instead of rolling them, and I'm hoping you will too. Worth seeing indeed.

| May 15, 2006

The recycled spectacle of yet another downsized U.K. working-class type being reduced to an act of feel-good against-all-odds crowd-pleasing redemption.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 5, 2006

Flawed by moments of sitcom humour, On A Clear Day still manages to tell an engaging story about men, work and friendship.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2006

The wonder here, if not the redemption, is that so many toil so hard to make this saccharine stuff palatable.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 5, 2006

... despite its familiarity, it works, mostly on the strength of a fine performance by the Scottish actor Peter Mullan.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2006

Clear Day isn't terribly engaging.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 21, 2006

Fans of Mullan's more intense work will find this soft and all-too maudlin.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 21, 2006

The movie reaches for an emotional climax that is simply beyond the filmmakers' grasp.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 14, 2006

The social, economic and personal stresses don't seem very surely addressed by the big swim.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.4/5 | Apr 14, 2006

Mullan makes the journey more than worthwhile, but don't go in expecting profundity.

| Original Score: B | Apr 14, 2006

A lesser film, kindhearted, a wee bit weepy and a wee bit trite.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 14, 2006

Nothing in On a Clear Day is especially compelling. The movie doesn't dig deep enough.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 14, 2006

Does any of this work? Sure, but only through the graces of a cast that knows better than to play to our hearts.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 14, 2006

A thoughtful, thoroughly engaging portrait of fractured family and friends pulling together for an impossible dream.

Full Review | Apr 14, 2006