Mom and Dad
Momentum Pictures | Release Date: January 19, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
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11
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5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
VarietyDennis Harvey
Though sure to be distasteful for some viewers even to ponder, this giddy exercise transcends mere bad-taste humor to become one of the great jet-black comedies about suburbia. Read full review
80
The TelegraphAdam WhiteMay 12, 2018
Mom and Dad is both a torrid exploitation cinema throwback, and a metaphor for a generation of kids screwed over by their elders. Read full review
80
ScreenCrushMatt Singer
Mom and Dad gives Cage his most plausible in-story excuse to unleash his total Cageosity since Face/Off. Given a juicy part and the freedom to do whatever he wants, he embraces Brent’s madness with obvious glee. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsJan 19, 2018
What Taylor and his game cast, led by Selma Blair and Nicolas Cage, do get right will leave you excited, and eager for more. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJan 18, 2018
It’s a funky, violent, nasty exploitation film, highlighted by a performance of operatic madness by the one and only Nicolas Cage. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJan 18, 2018
Mom and Dad may be a blood-soaked lark of uneven quality, but it has the good sense to use Reagan Youth’s punk anthem “Anytown” as an accompaniment to Cage’s parental … change of heart, let’s call it. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJan 16, 2018
Writer-director Brian Taylor's Mom and Dad invests a hoary conceit with disturbing and hilarious lunacy. Read full review
75
IndieWireBen Croll
More than the fervid cartoon violence and Cage’s rococo line readings, the film’s greatest asset lies in its simple, cold-blooded premise. Read full review
70
Little White LiesSophie Monks KaufmanDec 1, 2021
Selma Blair is sympathetically naturalistic as a woman who gave up her career to be a mother and now wonders what her options are. This is offset at every turn by Cage, whose line reading is unpredictable and whose movement is flamboyantly deranged. Read full review
70
Village VoiceCraig D. LindseyJan 18, 2018
As much of a nightmare Mom and Dad spins in turning parents into raving, homicidal lunatics, this movie also knows how hard it is for actual moms and dads to just get up every day and try to be good parents to these little muhfuckas. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie Felperin
Zero-to-60 speed crazy is pretty much right in Cage’s wheelhouse, and he offers up a perfectly amusing comical workout of the madman shtick he could pretty much do in this sleep at this point. More impressive is Blair, a chronically underused talent who gets to demonstrate her already established flair for comedy and more besides in a role to which she brings a surprisingly level of nuance. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovJan 25, 2018
Taylor’s film works best as both a commentary on the viral limits of parental affection, and the terror of bringing up said juvies. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Jan 19, 2018
If it doesn’t entirely exploit the potency of its metaphor, there’s still a certain grim fun in seeing Taylor give “family feud” an outrageous new meaning. Read full review
67
The Film StageJared MobarakJan 17, 2018
There’s also some commentary about twenty-first century technology and cellphone culture, but I don’t think Taylor goes far enough to make it more than throwaway insight soon forgotten for crazed violence. As far as the latter goes, Mom and Dad delivers crazy in an exciting way that never bores. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 18, 2017
Mom and Dad is a reminder of how much gonzo fun a B-movie can be, how hilarious “Crank” was and what a hoot Nicolas Cage — who makes almost entirely B, C and D movies these days — is when he’s uncaged and unhinged. Read full review
60
Time OutSimon CrookMar 5, 2018
Whether he’s delivering a monologue about anal beads or singing ‘The Hokey Cokey’ while sledgehammering a pool table, Cage’s performance is wildly in sync with Brian Taylor’s over-caffeinated direction. Read full review
60
Total FilmJamie GrahamFeb 26, 2018
An exploitation movie that, paradoxically, exhibits too much good taste. Still, expect “Saws all!” to become a 2018 catchphrase. Read full review
60
TheWrapRobert AbeleJan 19, 2018
Though it’s nothing new — one thinks of “The Shining,” “Parents,” and “Serial Mom” — it’s still disreputably fun to watch, like a viral video of a crazy person in public, or eavesdropping on a drunken spat in a restaurant, or that feeling when channel-flipping lands you on a familiar dumb movie right at your favorite moment. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayJan 18, 2018
The comic incongruity of doting parents stalking children becomes less funny over time; and often it feels like Taylor hasn’t thought through the particulars of his premise, or the places he could’ve taken it. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJan 18, 2018
We've seen unhinged Nicolas Cage before. For the most part, we like unhinged Nicolas Cage. But in the darkly comic horror satire Mom and Dad, Cage gets the opportunity to take things to a whole new level. Of course, he takes it. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJan 18, 2018
It’s a fun effort in a genre that hasn’t gotten much of a workout recently, and that’s worthwhile in itself. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin Lee
This is an unrepentant midnight movie, dirty and violent and best enjoyed with a steady supply of alcohol. Read full review
60
Screen DailyTim Grierson
The film lets Nicolas Cage’s gonzo performance be its guide, mixing mocking self-parody and giddy enthusiasm for an utterly disposable, demented genre diversion. Read full review
59
Paste MagazineDom SinacolaJan 18, 2018
None of it ever escalates past a baseline of digestible insanity, which isn’t really all that insane when the pasts of Cage and Taylor are littered with the skeletons of seedier films and more preposterous premises. Read full review
50
Washington PostPat PaduaJan 17, 2018
Despite a glorious performance by Nicolas Cage as a vicious father, this vivid satire of a world turned upside down is marred by writer-director Brian Taylor’s sloppy filmmaking. Read full review
40
UproxxVince ManciniJan 18, 2018
Mom And Dad feels like a concept that got pitched, sold, and shot without ever getting written. It’s premise and pantomime. It’s set-up, an hour of running and yelling, and the end. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzFeb 22, 2018
By this point in his career, star Nicolas Cage does crazy like no one else, but his descent into insanity here – not too far from how his character acts at the beginning of the film, really – can't elevate Taylor's juvenile take on adulthood. Read full review
38
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiJan 19, 2018
Aspires to be a scary suburban satire like “Get Out” or “Hot Fuzz.” But watching adults murder or attempt to murder toddlers, teens and even a newborn baby just isn’t funny. At times, it’s downright sickening. Read full review
30
The New York TimesGlenn KennyJan 18, 2018
Mr. Taylor offers up nothing but glitchy editing and bad vibes. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJan 24, 2018
The movie’s one and only idea renders itself boring, with still half the movie left for the audience to endure. Read full review
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ObserverRex ReedJan 31, 2018
If "Mother" is still the worst abomination ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting and undeserving public, Mom and Dad is at least the perfect companion piece. Read full review
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