The Day Shall Come. Moses (Marchant Davis)
The Day Shall Come

The Day Shall Come

  • 2019 film

A film by Chris Morris about an FBI operation gone wrong. Also features Marchant Davis, Anna Kendrick, Danielle Brooks, Denis O'Hare, Jim Gaffigan and more.

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The best comedy of 2019

Another year has past and once again it's been a pretty amazing one for comedy across the board, and it's been hard to whittle each category down to a top 10. But here are our suggestions for the best tv, film and live comedy of the year, along with a couple of other lists as well.

Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 31st December 2019

Chris Morris interview

"It's bonanza time for bad behaviour"

Adrian Lobb, The Big Issue, 14th October 2019

The Day Shall Come: review by Mark Kermode

Chris Morris's overcooked FBI farce.

Mark Kermode, The Observer, 13th October 2019

The Day Shall Come review

Desperate Feds take on cult in sly Chris Morris satire.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 11th October 2019

Film review: The Day Shall Come

If this was a first time director, or a normally workmanlike one like Ron Howard, it'd no doubt get praise for the directions it takes, but this is Chris Morris we're talking about, and a film we've waited nine years for, so it's incredibly frustrating that it's a flawed creation. And though the ending is powerful and the points it makes are important ones, I miss the Chris Morris who could do all of those things while also maintaining an incredibly high joke rate, and I just hope that whatever he does next is a return to those times, and that we don't have to wait quite so long for such an event too.

Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 11th October 2019

Review: The Day Shall Come

Chris Morris follow up to Four Lions mocks the conventions of the US War on Terror - The Day Shall Come shows just how much we've missed him, says Cath Clarke.

Cath Clarke, The Big Issue, 11th October 2019

The Day Shall Come review

Morris certainly succeeds in using satire to throw some light onto the shady operations of the FBI, but whether The Day Shall Come succeeds as a gripping, convincing story or astute comedy is mooter. But there's plenty of food for thought generated from the subject matter.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 11th October 2019

Review: The Day Shall Come

Chris Morris's latest film might have its heart in the right place, but lacks direction and fails to deliver on an ambitious premise, says Linda Marric.

Linda Marric, The Jewish Chronicle, 11th October 2019

There's a bit of a dog-whistle quality to Chris Morris's new film The Day Shall Come. The maverick British satirist's first film since the excellent Four Lions finds him taking aim at the institutional ineptitude and systemic racism of America's security services, zeroing in on a plausibly absurd scheme by the FBI to meet its counter-terrorism targets by entrapping a delusional but harmless black revolutionary preacher (a wonderfully guileless performance by Marchánt Davis) into becoming an arms dealer, even though he's against guns and really just wants to use his fledgling movement to prevent gentrification in his Miami neighbourhood. As the FBI agent who targets him, realises her mistake then finds herself unable to right her wrong without ruining her career, Anna Kendrick leads a more-than-capable cast, but both the script and the performances fall back on that bumbling, throw-away style familiar from TV shows such as The Thick of It and Veep and neither the humour nor the horror it's trying to expose really connects with the current moment. It plays more like a film about the Bush/Cheney era than Trump's America.

Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 10th October 2019

The Day Shall Come: review

Marchánt Davis gives a star-making performance in Chris Morris's half-baked satire.

Tim Robey, The Telegraph, 10th October 2019

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