Friendship

2024

Action / Comedy

34
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 73% · 200 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 73% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 34537 34.5K

drug dealer husband wife relationship marriage crisis obsession dark comedy male friendship

Plot summary

Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor Austin, and his attempts to make an adult male friend threatens to ruin both of their lives.

Director

Andrew DeYoung Photo
Andrew DeYoung

Top cast

Kate Mara Photo
Kate Mara as Tami
Rick Worthy Photo
Rick Worthy as Mr. Mendoza
Paul Rudd Photo
Paul Rudd as Austin
Josh Segarra Photo
Josh Segarra as Devon
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by paul-chambers-2 6 / 10

Friendship (2025) Review: A Gut Check in the Guise of a Bromance

At first glance, Friendship plays like it's gearing up to be a quirky indie comedy - awkward banter, strained smiles, and just enough charm to make you think you're in for a sad-sack buddy flick with heart. But then something shifts. Slowly. Quietly. And by the time the third act rolls around, you realize you're not watching a comedy at all. You're watching a slow-motion car wreck of emotional codependence and social decay - and you're in the passenger seat.The film's real trick (and possibly its curse) is how it messes with your sympathy. I started off feeling sorry for Robinson's character - lonely, vulnerable, maybe a little pathetic. But as the story peeled back layers, that pity curdled into discomfort. Then resentment. Then something colder. And yet, by the end, I still wasn't sure if I hated him or just hated how much of him I recognized.That emotional whiplash is probably the movie's greatest strength - and maybe its biggest obstacle. This is not a film that wants you to feel good. It wants you to squirm. It wants you to sit in the tension between wanting to help someone and realizing you might be feeding the very dysfunction you're trying to escape. That's powerful. It's also exhausting.The writing is sharp, but it doesn't hold your hand. The pacing is deliberate (read: slow), the tone slippery, and the morality murky. You can tell this film wants to be part of the post-Anora wave - intimate, raw, and morally complex - but it lacks Anora's clarity and brutal elegance. Instead, Friendship smudges the lines until everything feels a little too fuzzy to fully land.If Friendship is about anything, it might be this: the strange, sad reasons we keep toxic people in our lives. Loneliness. Obligation. Habit. Fear of what comes after letting go. It's a film that doesn't provide answers - just a long, uncomfortable mirror.I give it a 6.5 out of 10. It's well-made. It's interesting. It hits hard. But it also left me more overwrought than enlightened. There's value in that, sure - but I'm not in a hurry to go through it again.
Reviewed by briannabowling 7 / 10

Absurd, sad, and has something to say

There is nothing about Tim Robinson's comedic genius that can be said that hasn't been said already. He's obviously not for everyone, but if you like his style of comedy, you'll find this delightfully entertaining.However, I've noticed a lot of reviews seem to complain about the lack of a message in the movie. To me, the message is very clear: it's about the desperation many men often feel to be accepted by their peers, and to have a community to belong to. Oftentimes their own obsession with male approval comes at the expense of the women or families in their lives that could give them the attention and validation they so desperately crave. Men are sometimes their own worst enemies in terms of acting in ways that cause their own loneliness.But this message isn't ham-fisted, or shoved down your throat. It isn't preachy. It's subtle, and uncomfortable, and cloaked in awkward, exaggerated humor. The "cringe" you feel while watching is because there's likely some part of you, deep down, that can almost relate, even if you'd never admit it. Male or female, we all experience wanting more friends, or saying the absolute wrong thing.The more I think about this film, the more I realize how great it really is, and I wish more people understood what it's trying to say.
Reviewed by seanmc-75177 8 / 10

Jimp

The obvious comparison is "I love you man," because of Rudd and some of the other narrative parallels, but I like to think of this as the origin story of the "dangerous nights I used to be a piece of $h!t" guy from I think you should leave.Robinson strikes just the right balance between doing the things he's known for from ITYSL and Detroiters, and the kind of dark sadness that could only be depicted by someone who had a prior career in advertising (I say this as someone with a current career in advertising).There's a real undercurrent of existential dread running from start to finish and in the end, they stick the landing on never really knowing what was reality vs fantasy.It's a strong recommend from me, especially for those who enjoyed Robinson's previous projects, because make no mistake - while the supporting cast (primarily Mara and Rudd) anchors the reality - it's Robinson who sells the surreality required to tie it all together. 8/10.
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