'Friendship' explores the modern man

Review: It’s hilarious. It’s awkward. It’s ‘Friendship’

By Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times We keep hearing that we’re in a male-loneliness epidemic. The agonizing and hilarious “Friendship” makes it feel like the Black Death. Written and directed by debuting filmmaker Andrew DeYoung (TV’s “PEN15,” “Shrill”), this bromance trembles as guy meets man-child, guy dumps man-child and man-child burns everything down. It’s a reflection of the adult struggle to make new friends as seen through a spook-house …

The A24 Comedy 'Friendship' Seems to Agree That Men Are Not Okay

Here's how the A24 comedy 'Friendship,' directed by Andrew DeYoung and starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd, tackles masculinity and the male loneliness epidemic.

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A24Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship has all the makings of a sketch from I Think You Should Leave, Tim Robinson’s acclaimed comedy show on Netflix. It starts with a perfectly mundane situation, with all the social anxieties that go with it, and then, it escalates. Soon, you’ve got Tim Robinson eating a bar of soap, Kate Mara getting lost in a winding labyrinth of sewer tunnels, and Paul Rudd losing his toupee in a fit of sudden rage. It’s all so absu…

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‘Friendship’ Director Andrew DeYoung on Shooting His Tim Robinson Cringe Comedy with ‘High-Arthouse Aesthetics’

Are the guys OK? So rarely do we get smart, subversive screen comedies about male friendship these days, and writer/director Andrew DeYoung’s feature directing debut “Friendship” turns the genre inside out. Casting Paul Rudd as forlorn weatherman Austin Carmichael, neighbor to Tim Robinson’s anxiously neurotic Craig Waterman, in his A24 movie will immediately bring to mind another male friendship comedy, “I Love You, Man.” “Friendship” is like t…

Review: It’s hilarious. It’s awkward. It’s 'Friendship'

Tim Robinson, the star of "I Think You Should Leave," gets fixated on Paul Rudd as his too-cool potential BFF in a film that could be called "I Loathe You, Man."