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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanOne of the sweetest, saddest stories Franz Kafka never wrote.
- 100New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoIt's time to stop calling Azazel Jacobs a "promising" filmmaker. With Momma's Man, Jacobs achieves the promise.
- 100Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanBeautiful, wise, and poker-faced comedy of discombobulation.
- 90SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirA highly unusual combination of craft, emotion and integrity.
- 90The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisMr. Jacobs has succeeded at one of the most difficult tasks given a director, which is to make a character come alive through the filmmaking, not exposition.
- 83The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayA comedy of sorts, though to Jacobs' credit, he doesn't aim for cheap laughs.
- 80VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasWryly comic, sometimes heartbreaking and altogether original film about a thirtysomething Angeleno who pays a visit to his aging New York parents and finds himself unwilling or unable to leave.
- 80New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanA little miracle, Azazel Jacobs' lovely story of a life lost and found tackles big issues -love, maturity, fulfillment - in deceptively modest fashion.
- 70L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorMomma's Man taps into that ambivalence, and those moments when all of us long to flee adulthood and sink back into being our parents' beloved baby birds, whether or not we ever were in the first place.
- 50Film ThreatFilm ThreatThe movie is quiet and minimal in its dialogue, and it has flashes of humor and thoughtfulness. However, it's also unbearably slow and hard to empathize with Mikey when we don't really know what his problem is.