World’s Greatest Dad is more tender and heartfelt because of Williams’ performance. And when it’s all over, no matter how obscure the plot or demented the scenario, Goldthwait has constructed a welcomed little indie comedy of the unlikeliest kind.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 4, 2023

I enjoyed this film a lot. I'd go as far as to say that this is best film I have ever seen about someone who masturbates themselves to death.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2021

Not as out-and-out funny as it should be nor as emotionally poignant as it could be...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 11, 2019

The film's direction isn't always confident - there are baggy sections, and it's rarely deeply moving - but it is consistently funny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2018

...a bitterly dark comedy whose aim is uncomfortably true.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 20, 2014

Here, Williams has a chance to do some of the most integral, gentle and praiseworthy acting of his career.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 11, 2014

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

... This voyage through the moral maze is more entertaining and whisper it quietly, more profound, than most.

| Jun 30, 2011

Goldthwait has given it a title that will make some shy away. But don't. It's a comedy about the particularly American capacity to create legends out of the dead, and it's sharper than most.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2010

Beware that poster, with its jolly red writing and Mork from Ork's face thereon. This is not the Robin Williams of Old Dogs and License To Wed.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 29, 2010

A comedy of quite astonishing blackness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2010

Writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait can't quite manage to bring things to a satisfying conclusion, but he's good enough at weaving the freakishly perverse into the everyday without the results seeming too forced.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 27, 2010

Goldthwait's pacing is uncertain, and his humour is frequently "off", but the sense of risky provocation is compelling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2010

We can't wait to see what Goldthwait does next.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 24, 2010

It's good to see Williams trying something darker than usual, but it's a pity the whimsy is laid on so thick.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2010

Sadly, the ending seems unsatisfying but the journey there is a funny one.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2010

Williams keeps his head above water, and a giddy climax recuperates some of the original energy -- enough, at least, to make this director's next project one worth rooting for anew.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2010

This film is bold and provocative, but it's weak at the core. It is the weakness of an old dog trying desperately to learn new tricks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2010

It's the most daring black comedy of the year, and I admire its willingness to be not only vicious, but downright un-American.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2010