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‘Ex-Husbands’: Divorced Dad Crashes Son’s Bachelor Party

A comedy about a family’s three generations of male romantic malaise. The jokes are mostly squelched by the tangible depression felt by the collective menfolk.
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‘Ex-Husbands’: Divorced Dad Crashes Son’s Bachelor Party
Nick Pearce (James Norton) his dad, Peter Pearce (Griffin Dunne), and little brother Mickey (Miles Heizer) go to spread their family's patriarch's ashes, in "Ex-Husbands." Greenwich Entertainment
Mark Jackson
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R | 1h 38m | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2025

“Ex-Husbands,” director Noah Pritzker’s midlife-crisis comedy about four middle-class men—a grandfather, father, two sons—and their various relationship woes, is middling, and reminiscent of mid-1990s Billy Crystal movies.

Mark Jackson
Mark Jackson
Film Critic
Mark Jackson is the chief film critic for The Epoch Times. In addition to film, he enjoys martial arts, motorcycles, rock-climbing, qigong, and human rights activism. Jackson earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Williams College, followed by 20 years' experience as a New York professional actor. He narrated The Epoch Times audiobook "How the Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World," available on iTunes, Audible, and YouTube. Mark is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic.
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