Friendship
2025movie
Friendship (2025) delivers exactly what it promises: a strange, biting, deeply awkward comedy built around the offbeat sensibilities of Tim Robinson, who makes a compelling transition from sketch-comedy icon to feature-length leading man. Directed with a loose, melancholic charm and distributed by A24, the film feels like the American cousin to The Banshees of Inisherin—a story of friendship unraveling, replete with absurd detours, quiet existential dread, and deeply cringe-inducing moments.
Director Andrew DeYoung’s debut, a star vehicle for Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd, is intermittently hilarious but tonally confused. By Paul A. Thompson. May 22, 2025.But rather than confine its scope to the contemporary “male loneliness epidemic,” the film gets at a more longstanding despair. DeYoung, a veteran director of television comedy, wrote the script for Tim Robinson , whose Craig loses his wife, career, and a potential new friendship all while—at least in his mind—simply trying to be normal.
