Its vision of climate disaster apocalypse feels at once overdramatic and overly optimistic.

| May 5, 2024

"The Day After Tomorrow" deserves to be seen — and, if humanity fails to thwart climate change, preserved like that Gutenberg Bible.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 24, 2023

The Day After Tomorrow might be a popcorn thriller but the film depicts a horrifying future nevertheless.

| Jan 3, 2022

...a decent-enough disaster movie that's rarely as spellbinding as one might've anticipated based on its seemingly foolproof setup.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 5, 2021

Despite its impressive visual displays in hour one, the film quickly falters in the second half thanks in part to a bland cast stuck in some very silly subplots.

| Nov 16, 2019

The Day After Tomorrow is all about the high energy, rapid fire spectacular. Spectacular effects. Spectacular disasters. Spectacular ear-splitting bombastic sound to rival military shock and awe. In short, simply spectacular.

| Nov 7, 2019

Tries to rise above its genre but never ascends above mediocrity.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

As a disaster [movie] ... it's oddly reassuring.

| Feb 3, 2018

I don't think The Day After Tomorrow will pacify audiences as well as its predecessors, because even as disaster movies go, this one is a write-off.

| Jan 9, 2018

When the big money shot in the movie leaves you strangely unmoved you know you have a problem. Billions die, but the titular American heroes remain unvanquished.

| Aug 25, 2017

if you want to see Mother Nature kick some butt, this is your bag

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 17, 2016

"Trite" really isn't doing justice to the degree to which [the film] has not a single thought, character, or line of dialogue that hadn't been run into the ground by the beginning of the '80s.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 21, 2012

Some cool special effects...that's about it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2010

This is a popcorn film with a fact based concept, and that's all it is...

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

The ecological theme is not advanced with any subtlety, but so what? The film works with the broad brushstrokes appropriate to a popular entertainment.

| Jul 14, 2008

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

High-strung, melodramatic hogwash steeped in a measure of scientific fact. Emmerich takes it as seriously as he can and his movie, as a result, delivers more provocative fun than you might expect.

| Original Score: B | Sep 18, 2007

Don't even get me started on the hilarity of the scene where a bunch of people outrun a blast of freezing air and close the doors on it.

| Original Score: D | Jul 29, 2007

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007