Mr. 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.
A comedy of sorts, though to Jacobs' credit, he doesn't aim for cheap laughs.
80
VarietyScott Foundas
VarietyScott Foundas
Wryly 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.
80
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
A little miracle, Azazel Jacobs' lovely story of a life lost and found tackles big issues -love, maturity, fulfillment - in deceptively modest fashion.
70
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Momma'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.
50
Film Threat
Film Threat
The 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.