Mom and Dad
Momentum Pictures | Release Date: January 19, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
11
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
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
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