The dramedy carries a message, a fair and good one mind you, but one that will, unfortunately, fall on multiple deaf ears.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 18, 2024

Writer-director Mike White has made this movie with deep empathy.

| Jul 21, 2021

As a laundry list of Brad's existential questions Brad's Status doesn't delve deep enough to provide any real answers, no matter how good the performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2021

[White] understands what he's trying to say, but he lacks enough self-awareness to actually stick the landing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2020

Director Mike White resoundingly fails to effectively communicate his 'love life' message. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 3, 2020

Writer-director White is a master of blending comedy with something deeper, and Brad's Status is a worthy addition to his roster.

| May 14, 2020

Easily Mike White's best since Chuck and Buck, Brad's Status rings true more often than not, and even dares to offer answers to middle age ennui.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2020

This film may be hard to enjoy, but it sticks with you.

| Sep 20, 2019

It is an average feel-good movie whose bitter scratches come from a feature not entirely provided by the director White. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 2, 2019

A good cast and an OK script are let down by directorial fumbling and an ending that leaves you wondering just what exactly, if anything, the film was ever trying to say.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2019

This is essentially a seriocomic tale of the ridiculous foibles of male ego, and as entertaining as that can be, Brad's Status never quite does enough to transcend its problematic male-centric perspective.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2019

One of those films that makes you feel bad when you exit the theater.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 21, 2018

There's little compelling about the drama in regards to Brad's Status. Brad appears to not have any concept of how minor and inconsequential his problems are.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 2, 2018

Brad's Status is a smart, thoughtful examination of privilege that doesn't endorse the viewpoint of Stiller's disaffected character

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 31, 2018

Brad's Status is more than a little didactic, but it has greater value in the less pre-determined, more emotional fringes of its story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2018

Brad is so tedious that one spends the whole movie waiting for him to get his comeuppance. And sure enough, a secondary character comes in halfway through and reads him for filth.

| Original Score: C | Oct 17, 2018

Brad's Status is enjoyable, it's well observed and well acted, surprisingly fresh and not as conventionally predictable as you might imagine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2018

If the writer/director had really worked through these issues artistically, and really synthesized these issues further, the film would have been stronger and more satisfying.

| Aug 23, 2018

The problem with Brad's Status is that Brad's prattling on is never pleasant, and the film knows it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 19, 2018

It's a bit navel-gazing, but also important.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2018