Daddy Longlegs [is] the opposite of escapist entertainment. But if your father, like mine, was a character first and a dad second, you'll probably relate. And maybe you'll even feel a little less alone.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 18, 2023

It was the first feature film for the Safdies as a duo, starting their renegade drive as a new indie force not seen since the Coen Brothers.

| Feb 15, 2023

both humorous and harrowing, and even though it drags at times, its sense of repetition is crucial to its protagonist’s primary flaws

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 14, 2022

It has the jagged rawness of early Cassavetes mixed with the Safdie's trademark emotional volatility.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 15, 2020

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

An indie bittersweet comedy gem.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 28, 2011

The film's grungy, ultra-low-budget look, thanks to the Safdie's handheld camera, is just right for catching the crummy, hardscrabble, rat-infested milieu.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 8, 2010

Takes a little while to find its way but becomes steadily more compelling as Lenny's character and considerable issues come into focus.

| Original Score: B | Jul 1, 2010

Hitchcock would have loved it, even wrapped in the Safdies scruffy enigma of a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2010

Most directors are, in fact, inspiring performers who reserve their performances for cast and crew; Bronstein is among the most self-unsparing and inspired of them, and his performance in the movie is a treasure.

| Jun 11, 2010

Bronstein's loose-limbed performance as the brash, irresponsible father of two young boys establishes him as a genuine triple threat.

| Jun 10, 2010

If Daddy Longlegs is influenced by Cassavetes, well, that's not a bad thing. Few filmmakers have the nerve to travel that path.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 10, 2010

The Safdies deserve respect for surviving their childhood, if not for making a film about it that refuses to amuse or indict.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 28, 2010

A poignant, emotionally rich, sometimes playful, beautifully filmed tale of fractured fatherhood in New York City.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 21, 2010

Daddy Longlegs may shock you, but it will also make you reexamine your ideas about parenthood, and what it means to be a father.

| May 20, 2010

Daddy Longlegs is all jangly and raw. The hand-held camera is almost as much of a presence in the film as Lenny is.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2010

For about an hour, Josh and Benny Safdie's trendy indie about a deadbeat dad taking care of his two boys for two weeks in Manhattan seems like the kind of movie in which you hate everybody -- especially the directors.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2010

The movie picks away at the standard, glamorized depictions of life in New York to arrive at a different, essential truth.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 19, 2010

The episodic, well-acted tale has a strange kind of charm.

| May 18, 2010

At its best, this beautiful, off-the-cuff comedy-drama recalls John Cassavetes' shaggiest, most honest work.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 18, 2010