
After his engagement ends badly, Josh decides to take advantage of his bachelor-party plans in Ojai, California, with the few friends still willing to join him. Focused on drugs and their own hangups, his self-absorbed friends refuse to confront the elephant in the room and ask Josh how he's feeling. As welcome and unwelcome guests stop by, Josh will attempt to find some closure over this weekend with the guys.... (Full plot summary below)
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After his engagement ends badly, Josh decides to take advantage of his bachelor-party plans in Ojai, California, with the few friends still willing to join him. Focused on drugs and their own hangups, his self-absorbed friends refuse to confront the elephant in the room and ask Josh how he's feeling. As welcome and unwelcome guests stop by, Josh will attempt to find some closure over this weekend with the guys.
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| Consequence of SoundJustin GerberWriter/director Josh Baena (Life After Beth) bookends Joshy with dark moments, and while the first works perfectly, the second threatens to unravel everything that comes before. |
| Slant MagazineWes GreeneThe film feels most real, even at its most absurd, when focused on the idea of closure as a kind of fantasy. |
| FlavorwireJason BaileyAce performances all around, each perching on the razor's edge between comedy and tragedy, and falling freely from one side to the other. |
| RedEyeMatt PaisFew movies about groups of male friends do such a strong job with the dynamics between individual people and the collection as a whole. |
| Detroit NewsAdam Graham"Joshy" is like a weekend with random friends: fun and familiar, but rarely any deeper than the personalities involved. Don't look for more and you'll be fine. |
| Paste MagazineNorm SchragerWith five main characters, a host of cameos and a precipitous balance between comedy and darkness, Joshy gets a lot done, and does it very well. |
| Village VoiceAbbey BenderJoshy could easily be a film about loss, but it instead ends up as a prickly exploration of forced fun. |
| The New York TimesGlenn KennyMr. Baena (who, with David O. Russell, wrote the tricky 2004 “I ♥ Huckabees”) is more accomplished than many microbudget filmmakers, and the looseness with which he imbues the middle section of Joshy is deceptive, creating a sense that the necessary emotional crash might not actually occur. |
| FanboyNation.comSean MulvihillIt takes Joshy a little while to find its footing after a truly shocking opening scene, but once it does there's a nice story about friendship in the toughest times. |
| Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.comCary DarlingAn engagingly perceptive and often darkly funny glimpse at wrestling with issues of adulthood after a life of seemingly endless adolescence. |