As a feature-length conversation, “Daddio” lurches from one beat to the next; as a drama, it barely moves at all.

| Aug 8, 2024

It's very fortunate that this is a two-hander with two very photogenic actors.

| Jul 13, 2024

The truth is that “Daddio” gives both of them [Penn & Johnson] an unbeatable opportunity to shine and it is precisely thanks to them that the film works as well as it does. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 2, 2024

While I never fully bought that the two characters would engage as intimately as they do, their conversation still kept me glued to my seat, the graceful sobriety of the final moments even bringing on a handful of happily empathetic tears.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 1, 2024

Every woman I’ve ever known would start looking for an escape from a cabbie who turns as embarrassingly intimate as this one does—just as an impatient audience is likely to do with this movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 29, 2024

It’s an evenly matched battle, with two actors at the top of their game. But at the end of the day, this is still two people in a cab for 100 minutes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2024

Hall's dialogue compels you to listen, to lean in, but Johnson and Penn draw us into their separate worlds and histories, each face telling a million stories.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2024

If you’re going to make a two-character film you’d better have two really interesting people in your script and damned good actors to play them. Daddio has exactly that, and the result is an intriguing curio

| Jun 28, 2024

Penn’s an ideal choice for the part and he’s so good here, but it is the mesmerizing Johnson who buckles up and drives away with Daddio.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2024

The seated dance between Johnson and Penn is witty, earnest, honest, and overflowing with kindness, making Daddio a remarkable story of two strangers opening up to each other.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 27, 2024

Daddio is a classic two-hander, focusing entirely on the seesawing power dynamic between two very different individuals.

| Jun 27, 2024

A fascinating and imperfect experiment in rich lineage of modest two-handers that take on an epic scope.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 27, 2024

The film is as tedious and predictable as its traffic-clogged Long Island Expressway setting.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 27, 2024

Handicapped by more than a terrible title, Christy Hall’s “Daddio,” set almost entirely inside a New York City taxicab, tries too hard and lasts too long.

| Jun 27, 2024

Hall, Penn and Johnson have made more than a good movie with “Daddio.” They may have made a classic.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 27, 2024

Though it’s set inside a taxi, the movie never seems static as the conversational stakes rise.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2024

This particular ride? It’s not worth the fare.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 26, 2024

Perhaps a sharper, genuinely sexier screenplay could have enlivened such a cringe-inducing affair. But the worst side effect of Hall’s thin and sizzle-free script is that it encourages Johnson and Penn to go overboard in a bid to compensate.

| Jun 26, 2024

Given its premise and set-up (a chat between two characters in a moving car presented all but in real time), Daddio has the whiff of a stylistic exercise—one which Johnson and Penn attack with requisite self-seriousness.

| Original Score: C | Jun 25, 2024

Cliche, regressive messaging and a deeply self-serious tone prevent Daddio from being even laughably enjoyable.

| Jun 25, 2024