"Acidman is a powerful family drama that uses an entertaining sci-fi mystery to elevate its mature themes of generational trauma and loss."

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 18, 2025

Acidman has no heroes or villains, despite having a name that sounds like an unknown Marvel character. Relationships are the battleground here. People are at their best and their worst when they’re fighting for the things they love.

| Jul 25, 2023

It’s an intimate two-hander that takes patience from the viewer, but pays off with a feeling of gentle authenticity.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 4, 2023

The stars are superb, which makes the film a winner.

| Original Score: B | May 4, 2023

Acidman might have been better as a short film. Except for a few emotionally charged moments, this tepid drama about an adult daughter reconnecting with her estranged reclusive father is dragged down by dull and listless scenes.

| Apr 30, 2023

I've been saying it for years: Actor Thomas Haden Church is cinema's hidden weapon—a full-fledged, mega-movie-star waiting to happen. "Acidman" is some of his best work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2023

Acidman’s sci-fi angle is just one of several ideas it refuses to capitalize on, instead hewing to a tenor of quiet character-focused seriocomedy that arrives at no melodramatic or even emotional “big finish.”

| Apr 18, 2023

Rare is the film that refuses to moralize the actions of its characters, and boy, does this make Acidman refreshing.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Apr 12, 2023

All of these mostly middling characteristics coalesce into an ending that viewers will have seen coming since the opening frames, and once again the film frustrates by leading the audience to the precipice of some sort of genuine, earned emotion.

| Apr 8, 2023

This low-key familial drama isn't really about aliens, and not a lot actually happens, but the two actors are so fully emotionally invested in their roles that we can feel their shared history.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2023

A movie about trying to connect that itself fails to connect emotionally...a father-daughter reconciliation story that wastes the talents of its stars in a strained, simple plot told in a pretty desultory fashion.

| Original Score: C | Apr 5, 2023

There are no melodramatic revelations or overwrought confrontations, just two people quietly unpacking their feelings, often in meaningful silence.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 4, 2023

“Acidman” is built around a rather familiar father-daughter story. But director Alex Lehmann uses two stellar lead performances to infuse his modest yet genuinely heartfelt story with warmth and pathos.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 4, 2023

Acidman is an emotionally resonant and deeply affecting character study brought to life through the poignant and touching performances from Dianna Agron and Thomas Haden Church.

| Apr 3, 2023

Acidman is a fairly monotonous experience from beginning to end.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2023

A nicely acted father daughter story with more dramatic meat on its bones than you expect.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 2, 2023

A pair of richly textured performances drive this low-key character drama.

| Apr 1, 2023

There is a gentle grace and honesty with Acidman that makes it a heartwarming slice of American cinema, no matter what you believe in.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 31, 2023

As out of my sphere of understanding as some of the film might be, it still drew me in and made me care about these lost souls hoping to shore up their existence with help from one another.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 31, 2023

Church delivers one of his best performances as a gentle yet unpredictably scatterbrained crackpot with an intense desire to be heard, but it's Agron who steals the show with an emotionally charged thaw from guarded uncertainty to compassionate relief.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 31, 2023