It’s well-made, if nearly entirely predictable, and because Burr essentially just transplanted his stand-up set straight into Jack’s mouth, it’s often laugh-out-loud funny.

| Feb 12, 2025

To even call Old Dads a movie feels like a gross overstatement as it hardly meets the requirements to be considered one. Instead, it is like a series of recycled stand-up bits that Burr has already done better before. Here, he just bombs over and over.

| Jan 4, 2024

Bill Burr looks like he's doing stand-up during most of it. Bobby Cannavale is hilarious in a very broad, crazy, zany kind of way...

| Original Score: B- | Nov 15, 2023

Bill Burr's stand-up comedy rocks, his acting is surprisingly good, and his directing debut is promising. Especially since "Old Dads" advocates for a demographic that doesn't get a lot of visibility these days.

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

Very funny... serves up a sound backhander to the insipid nature of woke culture where offense is taken at every turn...Burr, who co-wrote with Ben Tishler, proves himself a fine director, giving each character arc, even the supporting ones, their due.

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

Old Dads is funny for a bit but quickly overstays its welcome, resulting in a disjointed movie that never quite pulls itself together.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 31, 2023

The title "Old Dads" is misleading. If you're a new middle-aged parent, there's surprisingly little in the "promise of the premise." As written, it might as well be called "Old Guys" as it's mostly Gen X mocking Gen Z. Still, the "Braveheart" bit crushes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2023

A vulgar and unfunny comedy.

| Original Score: D | Oct 26, 2023

Quality-wise, it lands squarely in the middle of the pack, which is probably just good enough for its intended audience. For the rest of us, it's another throwaway comedy with stale jokes and a watered-down premise.

| Oct 25, 2023

It amounts to comedian Bill Burr turning his stand-up act into a feature with a three-act structure and supporting characters. If you like Burr, you’ll be in familiar territory and perhaps be able to simply go along with what’s presented.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 25, 2023

At least try to be relevant, Mr. Burr, instead of telling jokes recycled from old episodes of According to Jim.

| Oct 24, 2023

What’s considered fun and acceptable may not be anyone, so where do I fit in? However, things feel included to have something to shake a fist at.

| Oct 24, 2023

The movie as a whole is just a clothesline to hang a string of grievances against an ultra-sensitive and hypocritical society, but like Bill Burr's stand-up material when it hits it can be very funny.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 24, 2023

The writing sometimes collapses into overkill, but sometimes it is precisely on point.

| Oct 23, 2023

Old Dads director/co-writer/star Burr understands the hypocrisy of some behavior among both millennials and Gen Xers, and there are a handful of very funny lines here.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2023

Here, his “woe-is-me” act loses steam quickly, as “Old Dads” wears out its welcome like the old man you pretend to listen to but couldn’t care less what he’s saying.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2023

Rather than challenge himself, Burr instead uses the film to adapt his schtick into a three-hander bro comedy addressing the generational divide regarding modern mores and language.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2023

Bill Burr's film isn’t the worst directorial debut by any means of the phrase, but the film's raunchy comedy fails to say something meaningful.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 22, 2023

A number of big laughs can be found in the picture, yet the refusal to stick with its central idea grows frustrating.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 22, 2023

A boorish and obnoxiously vulgar comedy that, since it can’t claim any other great distinction, might well have been expressly written to break the all-time record for use of the f-word in the major studio movie.

| Oct 20, 2023