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Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies: I think Goldthwait wrote a terrific script here and I think it manages to stay funny after it takes its rather dark turn. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Ultimately, Dad finds a somewhat unsatisfying and overblown way out of [its] intriguing ambivalence. But that's the only disappointing note in an otherwise smart and observant movie about reckless acts of adult survival. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: [A] savagely funny, unexpectedly touching exploration of the human need to idealize and romanticize the dead. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: At times, the film recalls some amalgam of Heathers' and Election,' but its talons don't draw the same blood. Read more
Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times: For all of its cutting cynicism, Dad proves unexpectedly moving in its portrait of a middle-aged man leaving childish things behind. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: With his delicate mix of sick humor and compassion, Goldthwait is that rare comic writer who can legitimately be compared to Lenny Bruce. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Flashes of deadpan outrageousness occasionally redeem the dourness. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Making Kyle godawful may seem edgy, even authentic. But it's pure setup. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Offering Robin Williams his richest role in memory while serving up a nice cold bowl of shock soup for the audience, World's Greatest Dad is a surprisingly smart and severely twisted dark comedy from comic Bobcat Goldthwait. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: World's Greatest Dad, Bobcat Goldthwait's latest garishly potty-mouthed and over-the-top black comedy, blows up every rule of taste, good cinema, and common sense, and somehow gets away with it. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: Goldthwait's great visual pun is that Kyle's gawky class picture is increasingly backlit and screen-printed until he's no longer an acne-ed geek but a beatific Che Guevara Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: The movie essentially relies on the same joke being told over and over. But Goldthwait finds enough clever ways into that joke to make it seem fresh, and he makes you curious to see how far he's willing to push it. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: World's Greatest Dad is a twisted comedy that refuses to let any assumption rest in peace -- including the one that every dearly departed is really dear at all. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Once the movie shifts gears, it becomes a timid Donnie Darko-like surrealist fable. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: At 99 minutes, World's Greatest Dad is a tad too long, and takes its sweet time to get to the point. But its twisted heart is in the right place. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: World's Greatest Dad makes sharp but obvious observations about the social strata of an American high school. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: For a comedy about autoerotic asphyxiation, epic deception, and shameless exploitation, World's Greatest Dad is a surprisingly sweet and tender affair. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The movie isn't perfect -- it suffers from an uneven tone in the first half-hour, but it claims the one key ingredient a satire of this nature must possess: fearlessness. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Bobcat Goldthwait makes a daring assault in World's Greatest Dad against our yearning to mythologize the dead. But he loses his nerve just before the earth is completely scorched. Read more
Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: There's more going on here than the age-old struggle between maturity and its surly teen antithesis. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Williams, with a brave smile that belies the toxic environment, emerges with a trophy as one of Hollywood's greatest survivors. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Though hampered by an uneven tone and a disturbing conclusion, World's Greatest Dad is a bold, black comedy balanced by an unexpected sense of humanity. Read more
Dennis Harvey, Variety: Goldthwait's script turns into a surprisingly restrained, focused sendup of the blind adulation often bestowed on flawed personalities once they croak too soon. Read more
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: Sleeping Dogs Lie -- a/k/a "the dog blowjob rom-com" -- planted the seed (OK, wrong choice of words) that Goldthwait wrings tender humanity from disturbing premises, but his scandalously entertaining new satire proves a darker, funnier success. Read more
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Lands improbably on its feet after every reckless plot turn. Read more