A twisted horror-comedy without much beyond its back-of-the-box description.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 16, 2022

The action is big and messy, bloody and ridiculous, but there is actually a real sense of horror in kids trying to survive such a personal, intimate, and uncompromising betrayal.

| Oct 29, 2021

It's just a fun time... a simple film with a simple idea and letting it run through.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 16, 2021

The very definition of a midnight movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2021

The escalating absurdity of crazed parents blithely brainstorming ways to slaughter their children is dementedly superb.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 7, 2020

In 1979, the poster for Alien told us that, in space, no one can hear you scream. But I bet they can hear Nicolas Cage.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 14, 2020

There are many people in the world who collect wacky Nicolas Cage performances, and certainly this one hits all the right notes. It also happens to be a serviceable horror film that is smart and funny as well.

| May 28, 2020

"Mom and Dad" is a nutter of a film that is highly entertaining and knows exactly what it is doing. Brian Taylor definitely knows how to craft insanity and how to make it fun to watch.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 12, 2020

To the movie's credit-and detriment-it knows what it is. At just 83 minutes, it's for the most part able to maintain its ridiculous premise.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 5, 2019

A film that is pure noise and ultra violence, little or not at all elegant, but owner of a fury that puts Taylor back to the throne he should never have left. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2019

The film's themes and storylines run at different beats and tempos to one another resulting in plenty of noise but little enjoyment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2019

MOM AND DAD won't be an instant cult classic, but it will make you think twice before being rude to your parents at dinner.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 13, 2018

The specificity of the film's perverse conceit allows writer-director Brian Taylor to maintain a giddily satirical atmosphere throughout the blood-spattered proceedings,.

| Original Score: B | Dec 7, 2018

Trying too hard to be a crazy cult movie, Mom and Dad forgets to be an enjoyable thrill ride in the process.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 12, 2018

Its wit, poise, reflection, and irony surpass such junk as Crazy Rich Asians and Get Out, making Mom and Dad the most American of American movies this year.

| Nov 6, 2018

Mom and Dad is a mess that doesn't quite work, but it's the kind of mess that's just good enough that it should be great.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 3, 2018

Mom and Dad is a hyper-violent and darkly funny film that says all the things about parenting that parents aren't supposed to say.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Nov 2, 2018

Played out with gleeful abandon, Mom and Dad is bloody good family fun.

| Oct 31, 2018

Mom and Dad is a deliciously perverse thriller with gore and dark laughs to spare.

| Oct 26, 2018

"Mom and Dad" is absolutely insane, and that's meant as a compliment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2018