The Breadwinner: A Likable but Badly Dated Family Comedy
Matt Zoller Seitz is among the film’s harshest detractors, arguing that it simply reheats the 1980s stay-at-home-dad formula with a few modern props. He grants that Bargatze can be funny within the limits of his squeaky-clean style, that Mandy Moore brings warmth to an underwritten part, and that a rivalry subplot with Kumail Nanjiani’s car salesman pays off with a big laugh.
























