‘Every Day’ has an interesting concept but no clue how to make it interesting

Posted on March 2, 2018

By MARK VIOLA

What if you woke up in a different body each and every day, destined to hop into somebody else 24 hours later? What kind of life would that be? Could you have anything more than fleeting relationships?

These questions are at the core of “Every Day,” the new film based on the novel by David Levithan, which was adapted by screenwriter Jesse Andrews (“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”). The film has an admittedly intriguing concept to play with, but never really seems able to bring it to full life, instead content to settle on a moderately interesting teen romance.

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