Labor Day is a tragic mess on all kinds of levels. It’s not that you’d expect this movie to win awards or anything, but you can expect a lot more from Reitman, who really misses the mark big time here.

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 12, 2024

The movie’s compression of characterizations and storylines makes it seem like it was adapted from one of those trashy beach reads that are digested and forgotten over the course of one sunburnt afternoon.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2023

The film doesn't round off a concise story, falling towards the end in the common places that tried so hard to avoid. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 13, 2022

Predictable, obvious, and far-fetched.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2022

While ranking among director Jason Reitman's most sincere offerings, the hostage drama Labor Day sends the distressing message that a woman must settle when it comes to love.

| Jan 22, 2022

A compelling, if slightly far-fetched tale, of the kinds of connections people make.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2021

My gut tells me that Reitman has pretty much made exactly the film he wanted.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

Basically, imagine a Nicholas Spark movie, but without the cheese.

| Apr 24, 2020

I was bored and uncomfortable.

| Apr 24, 2020

Labor Day is still a solid, emotive and absorbing drama, albeit one that is ultimately unremarkable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2019

This works is also down to Winslet and Brolin. They certainly share smoldering chemistry, which helps no end, but they also add depth and meaning to roles which in others' hands could have easily been flat.

| Mar 6, 2019

The romance, while ridiculous, can probably scratch the itch of sappy people who don't know any better.

| Feb 5, 2019

You can't focus on the story, the actors, the acting, the chemistry or the dialogue. It's like there's no safe place to rest your eyes.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 3, 2018

Kate Winslet can't really do any wrong from an acting standpoint and this was no exception.

| Aug 22, 2018

[Jason Reitman] has taken himself far too seriously, producing a film so ruminative and honeyed and dull that the final scenes start to resemble a terrifying and treacly recurring dream, in which no one seems to be able to leave town.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 21, 2018

[The] message gets muddled against "Labor Day's" contemporary disregard for sexual restraint in relationships.

| Nov 28, 2017

Too much sugar ruins the pie! Jason Reitman's shamelessly saccharine adaptation of Joyce Maynard's novel could not have resisted such a bromide, as it was baked into the dough.

| Oct 10, 2017

The three central performances are amazingly complex and introspective, each actor providing the perfect mix of either apprehension or confidence.

| Original Score: A | Jun 23, 2016

Too often, 'Labor Day' feels like a sternly resolved, self-consciously determined break from that tradition, a filmmaker deciding "I am making a Serious Drama" and steadfastly refusing to allow even a note of levity into the proceedings.

| Jun 18, 2016

'Labor Day' is an example of why, when the world self-destructs, all that will be left is cockroaches, and romance novels. And Keith Richards. Okay, never mind that last one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 5, 2016