Writer-director Liu Jian never misses an opportunity to find deadpan humour, whether it is from dead-eyed hotel clerks at budget hotels or from the assortment of crooks, each with their own tics and levels of competency, sent to hunt Xiao Zhang.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2020

One of a kind. Visually and thematically, it is a stark, ruthless, and true-to-life movie about people living on the urban-rural fringe of China today.

| Feb 10, 2020

"Have A Nice Day" has its faults, particularly in the technical department, but is a rather meaningful spectacle, as it presents a rather pointy critique towards the contemporary Chinese society.

| Oct 20, 2019

The animations are top-notch and social critique (literally 'chasing after money') compelling, but it just doesn't seem made for Chinese audiences.

| Aug 14, 2019

It is a real shame that the artificial montage of 'Have a Nice Day' throws away its virtues, centered on its remarkable visual. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 23, 2019

... the whole is a somewhat confusing, thoroughly over-reaching, animated moral tale that spends more time posing ephemera than constructing a substantial, provocative story.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 6, 2019

I'm glad I saw it but it won't stick with me for a long time.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 6, 2019

This is a stylish crime thriller that manages to say a lot with very little, and it finds time to dwell on what all those disfigured cityscapes and dreams mean for a nation in flux.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 20, 2018

Greyish and ugly, the city is an image of the capitalist grief that feeds the desperate desire to escape. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 20, 2018

Clocking in at a brisk 77 minutes, Have a Nice Day is a lean and mean breaker of wills, residing somewhere between misanthropic and nihilistic.

| Aug 20, 2018

A very entertaining animated film that, without trying to hide its very obvious cinephile influences, raises a dry and disenchanted vision of the China of the new century. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 6, 2018

A stunning achievement... Nobody is making films quite like Liu Jian.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2018

Enthralling from first to final frame, Have a Nice Day stays constant in tone but ever evolving in how the content changes our perspectives.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 30, 2018

Have a Nice Day grabs your attention. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2018

When the filmmaker manages to find a voice of his own, freeing himself from his excessively referential registers, his cinema may transcend its current condition of exotic singularity. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 10, 2018

The individuals, like the animation, are two-dimensional. But that's surely the point.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2018

It's an elegantly and wittily drawn piece of work, the design being clear, simple, sometimes almost two-dimensional, foregrounding droll and telling detail: it could almost function as a storyboard cartoon for a live-action version.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2018

Manages to pack an absorbingly convoluted plot into its brief 75-minute running time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2018

We'd like to take the whole film home, to keep it and cherish its dark wit and intensity.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 21, 2018

A conventional tale of bungled crime given a fresh lick of primary-coloured paint.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2018