World's Greatest Dad Critic Reviews

With Dad and his last writer-director effort, "Sleeping Dogs Lie," Goldthwait has accomplished the formidable feat of making wry, tender, fundamentally sweet comedies about the human condition that just happen to center on acts of autoerotic asphyxiation and bestiality, respectively. That isn’t easy.Read the full review

Williams hasn't been this sympathetic in years.Read the full review

For all of its cutting cynicism, "Dad" proves unexpectedly moving in its portrait of a middle-aged man leaving childish things behind.Read the full review

With a merciless acuity this nihilistic comedy ridicules collective grief and the news media’s cynical marketing of inspirational uplift after a death.Read the full review

This premise is well-established because of a disturbingly good performance by Daryl Sabara as Kyle, the disgusting son.Read the full review

After leading the audience into some very inky satire, Goldthwait backs off.Read the full review

Goldthwaite's script has the honesty of someone speaking with the voice of experience.Read the full review

May not be for everyone, but filmgoers tuned in to its particular, perverse frequency will find much to value in its bent sense of humor and compassion.Read the full review

The picture wobbles a bit before emerging a successful low-key satire of literary fraud and morbid personality cults.Read the full review