I Love You, Daddy
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55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
8
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
VarietyOwen Gleiberman
There’s a better, tighter, more emotionally focused movie hidden somewhere in the sprawl of “I Love You, Daddy.” It’s a movie that’s just as rude, funny, and observant as this one but that doesn’t tie itself in knots trying to “say” something. Read full review
50
VoxAlissa WilkinsonSep 18, 2023
I’ll be pondering I Love You, Daddy more; for now, though, I’m not convinced it’s thoughtful, and suspect it’s nothing more than clever and funny provocation for provocation’s sake. Read full review
50
Village VoiceLara Zarum
Ultimately, C.K., who always has found his strongest and funniest voice when he’s onstage alone with a microphone, struggles to make the movie cohere — it goes limp, the plot fizzles, and Leslie himself fades out of view, a cloudy figure who never really has to answer to anyone. Read full review
50
ConsequenceSarah Kurchak
It’s a film in which provocations are punchlines and treading into potentially offensive territory is an end in and of itself. It consistently pushes every boundary it comes across, and then just sort of stands there and shrugs about it. Read full review
42
The Film StageDaniel Schindel
As a thinkpiece generator, it is absolutely spectacular – by every other metric, it’s a failure. Read full review
40
TheWrapClaudia Puig
Louis CK’s I Love You, Daddy is queasy fare, not just because its rambling, self-indulgent story has strange and unfortunate associations with real-life allegations, but also for its tone-deaf narrative and offensive sexual politics. Read full review
40
SlateDana Stevens
I watched it not as a critic preparing to summarize its merits or flaws to an audience of readers curious whether it was worth their time to see it, but as a sickened and disappointed fan, saying an unsentimental but still sad goodbye to one of her cultural crushes. Under those circumstances, I Love You, Daddy seemed less like a movie than like a series of symptoms presented, with shocking directness, for the viewer’s clinical consideration. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
When I watched I Love You, Daddy a second time, the jokes no longer landed; its shocks felt uglier, cruder. But for once a filmmaker seemed to be admitting to the misogyny that we know is always there and has often been denied or simply waved off, at times in the name of art. Read full review
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