Avis Metacritic

Masterfully paced and constructed, and the performances are memorable.

One of the most impressive films to come out of Sweden in the past year. Ace acting, powerful direction and engaging storylines.

It maintains a strong enough sense of squirmy humanity that its characters' epiphanies and emotional growth feel both hard-earned and richly deserved.

The snappish domestic infighting is effectively staged, yet beneath its ''raw'' atmosphere Daybreak traffics in pop-sociological clichés.

Dark, depressing drama.

If Daybreak weren't so powerfully acted, its accumulating anguish would be too much to bear. As it is, all three couples, especially Knut and Mona, verge on caricature.

Runge's coolly photographed, intricately plotted feature is always interesting in its execution, but disappointingly pat in its resolution.

The characters are so over-the-top with emotional pain -- that they are hardly credible as characters.

If you're going to put us through hell, you'd better make it worth our while. Though Daybreak boasts a couple of minor insights and a compelling performance from Pernilla August, only the masochistically inclined will consider them sufficient reward.

A studied, overwrought look into Personal Crisis and Redemption.