Friendship

Robinson’s brand of middle-class psycho surrealism works perfectly in bite-size sketch-comedy doses. Stretched out to feature length, a character like Craig simply stops making sense.

Tim Robinson’s abject absurdity, committed unpleasantness, and humble embrace of slapstick keep the sporadic laughs coming.

For all its silly and surreal flourishes, Friendship keeps a beating heart.

The overall effect is of a series of interconnected comedy sketches on the loose themes of manhood and male bonding, which are hilarious if you vibe with Robinson’s style of humor and insufferable if you don’t.

This is a movie, essentially, about the contemporary issue of male social isolation and its nasty consequences. Thankfully, DeYoung’s script avoids taking the easy bait of cynicism and opts for empathy.

DeYoung is not just a wonderful comedy director, but a great stylist, and there is a mournful quality to the visuals. Ultimately, he has made a movie about male loneliness.

Robinson more than capably carries the film, as a guy who’s certainly weird, but endearing enough that we don’t turn against him completely.



Fans of Tim Robinson will likely agree that Friendship succeeds at being more than just a bunch of strung together bits. Non-fans will want to burn the theater down and never see another movie again for as long as they live.

Friendship is the funniest movie I’ve seen in some time [...] DeYoung taps into the corrosive alienation of men who cannot communicate honestly, share intimacies, or have open discussions about their feelings

Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd lead one of the funniest movies of 2025. If you thought Robinson was strange on I Think You Should Leave, wait until you see him creep out Rudd.