Daddy's Home

It plays better than it reviews — the watch lands harder than the write-ups suggest.

• “If you’re looking for a film that’s just about guaranteed to make you feel good, you’d be well advised to drop by Daddy’s Home.”

  Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch · 75

• “In its best moments, it's a sly exposé of the frailties of the contemporary male self-image and in its lesser moments a simplistic slapstick. This being a Will Ferrell comedy, sometimes those moments are one and the same.”

  Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times · 70

• “Anders had many opportunities to pit the dads against each other directly, but trades in the cheesy, expected route for devious mind games.”

  Dana Rose Falcone, Entertainment Weekly · 67

• “Consider it a predictable movie with flashes of unpredictability, one that actually coaxes some early laughs with, yes, scatological wit, then makes us groan when it shamefully takes the low road back to poopville a bit later on.”

  Tom Russo, Boston Globe · 63

• “Lame Ferrell, through some weird freak of his talent, tends to be the best Ferrell, and despite the film’s general mediocrity in most departments – let us swish briskly over everything about the way it looks – his floundering star turn delivers the goods.”

  Tim Robey, The Telegraph · 60