If one thinks a bit more about it, one would realise the film’s ridiculous premise, and that also means that one would feel much less for Sandra and her troubles.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 12, 2024

With Cotillard commanding the screen and using none of her looks and star power, the Dardennes have created an intentionally minimalistic film that packs a punch without the need for gaudy theatrics.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2023

Not every actress could demand attention in such a role, but Cotillard nails it.

| Jun 23, 2023

The film goes from the social to the intimate, without judging anyone, without dividing the world between villains and heroes... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2022

The brothers have done it again. This is a powerfully emotional, superbly written and brilliantly acted drama that shows the Dardennes at the top of their game.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 11, 2022

Perhaps the best work yet from the Dardennes, this harrowing drama derives most of its power from a knockout performance by Marion Cotillard (deservedly earning a Best Actress Oscar nomination).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 10, 2022

An intimate story from two Belgian directors who excel with the intimate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2021

Another beautifully rendered portrait of troubled but hopeful humanity from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2020

With Two Days, One Night, the Dardennes continue to take the path of least resistance, never asking how the working class has arrived at this state of affairs...

| Aug 11, 2020

This is some compelling stuff.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 27, 2019

Two Days, One Night is a lot like Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds. For real! Both movies show the consequences of global destruction playing out in just one family.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 30, 2019

[It] is a beautifully acted, compelling parable about the viciousness of capitalism, the invidious decisions it forces on ordinary people and the self-interest it engenders.

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

This is just the sort of richly layered, individual versus hive mind underdog tale that the likes of Frank Capra and Sidney Lumet used to do so well

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2019

Cotillard, her hair in a straggly ponytail, wears skimpy, summer tank tops, but is so slouched and tense for most of the film, her body is like a backwards "S." She comes across as both convincingly desperate and working-class.

| Mar 11, 2019

Cotillard brings to life their plight with a performance in which she lays bare her emotions with remarkable honesty.

| Mar 2, 2019

Point a camera at actress Marion Cotillard for the duration of a feature drama and remarkable things are bound to happen, especially with such an engaging script by Belgian filmmakers the Dardenne brothers.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 31, 2018

The careworn Marion Cotillard is a suitable icon for this most commendable of morals on the perils of neglecting social responsibility during these hardened, austere times.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2018

The Dardenne Brothers make amazing films that detail individual human experience extraordinarily well and Two Days, One Night is no exception.

Full Review | Aug 27, 2018

This is a rare example of filmmakers actually keeping it real.

| Aug 23, 2018

This is a Dardennes film, so there's a twist. I was wondering if it would happen, but when it did, I was still blindsided.

| Aug 8, 2018