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I Love My Dad

2022

James Morosini

Patton Oswalt, James Morosini, Claudia Sulewski, Rachel Dratch ...

5.4

142

Comedy A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Debruge Variety	"Morosini holds back the personal stuff you can tell a stranger, but not your dad, making the result feel like a sitcom more than a brutally honest movie"
		Todd McCarthy Deadline	"A comedy with a brain and a heart, a feat not easy to pull off, especially in a genre in which many filmmakers are content just to get cheap laughs"
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Gently funny and much more forgiving than viewers might expect, the picture plays to Oswalt's strengths"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Funny and deeply uncomfortable (...) Easy to enjoy but hard to stomach (...) 'I Love My Dad' would have been more satisfying experience had it swerved away from decency and good taste even harder than it already does"
		Ross Bonaime Collider	"'I Love You Dad' has its heart in the right place (...) Oswalt gets another solid role he can sink his teeth into, and Morosoni proves himself an interesting new writer-director to watch"
		Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"'I Love My Dad' feels tonally adrift, stuck in a comedy/drama dead zone until its final act when Oswalt goes earnestly all-in on his character, but Morosini can't figure out how to end this story"
		Jason Bailey The Playlist	"Sunk by an off-putting premise (...) It's the kind of movie that gets praised for being risky, but not for actually being any good"
		Ethan Anderton SlashFilm	"Patton Oswalt is perfect (...) There's a big beating heart at the center of the movie that keeps you close to the ground and makes it an absolute triumph of twisted humor and love"
		Aurora Amidon Paste Magazine	"Morosin's script is daring and to-the-point with a strong and original conceit that bursts as a short, snappy piñata filled with shocking, sad, sweet, poignant, funny and distasteful. I just wish its stuffings clashed less"
		John Fink The Film Stage	"'I Love My Dad' is as funny as it is mortifying, with Oswalt as a kind of sociopathic Cyrano de Bergerac justifying his behavior in the name of becoming closer to his son"
		Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"The premise is so icky that the film's writer, director, and co-star James Morosini lets viewers know at the very outset that its plot is based on a true story, thus automatically rendering it more palatable"
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"Unshowy and functional in his directorial approach, Morosini wisely keeps it light"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Masterful cringe-comedy (...) However grotesquely culpable Chuck has been, you find yourself wanting to hug him. It’s a clever comic trick to bring off. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"Is it a well-made film? Absolutely, and Morosini has a strong vision for how to shape a story and characters right out of the gate. Unfortunately, that doesn't turn 'I Love My Dad' into a must-watch (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Mostly distasteful and thuddingly unfunny, this is the kind of story that asks us to take wild leaps of faith at every turn —and then buy into a redemption story arc that is neither plausible nor earned (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Mark Keizer AV Club	"Patton Oswalt excels as a deadbeat dad who catfishes his son in James Morosini’s cringe-filled comedy"
		Chuck Bowen Slant	"For both better and worse, 'I Love My Dad' feels less like a film than an exorcism (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Siddhant Adlakha IGN	"'I Love My Dad' keeps ascending, and ascending, until it scrapes the comedy-thriller stratosphere"
		Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"It's exciting to see Morosini take so many chances with the way his narrative unfolds, even if they don't all pay off. It helps that he has such game stars in Sulewski and Oswalt"
		Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"Patton Oswalt plays the version of Morosini’s father with great heart (...) and it’s one of the comedian’s very best performances in a film (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		William Bibbiani The Wrap	"Whether you laugh with 'I Love My Dad' or never shake the queasy feeling in your stomach, Morosini’s film is remarkably sensitive and eerily confessional"
		John Serba Decider	"It churns up some weird, complicated feelings, but it works"

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