2023 · comedy
Old Dads
Directed by Bill Burr1h 42m2023
A cranky middle-aged dad and his two best friends find themselves out of step in a changing world of millennial CEOs and powerful preschool principals.
Our read: Old Dads (2023) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
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