After receiving life-altering news, a couple finds unexpected support from their best friend, who puts his own life on hold and moves into their family home, bringing an impact much greater and more profound than anyone could have imagined... (Full plot summary below)
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After receiving life-altering news, a couple finds unexpected support from their best friend, who puts his own life on hold and moves into their family home, bringing an impact much greater and more profound than anyone could have imagined
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| New York PostJohnny OleksinskiSome will accuse Our Friend of being sentimental, and it is, but not in an “Oh no! The golden retriever was kidnapped!” way. It’s subtle. The wisdom of Brad Ingelsby’s script is that Dane’s assistance is unnoticeable until very late in the movie. His acts of kindness sneak up on you. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOur Friend is both a tribute to a friend and to those rare people that are too humble to realize their own wisdom. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOur Friend occasionally goes overboard on the sentiment. But thanks in large part to Segel’s huggable-bear persona, Affleck’s typically steady work and Dakota Johnson turning in perhaps the most impressive performance of her career, the laughs and the tears feel quite real. |
| The PlaylistElla Kemp“The Friend” is successfully anchored by its three leading players ... The sensitivity of these performances, particularly from Affleck and Segel, offers a reckoning on sincere friendship and the limits of devotion that remains with the viewer, long after the days of waiting and the years of pain have finally come to an end. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThe intimacy of Ms. Johnson’s performance is extraordinary. She is the least assertive of movie stars, yet the courage, despair and fury she finds in Nicole will lift you up and spin you around. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinThe film absorbingly shuttles back and forth in time, tracking key moments in the trio’s lives that not only illuminate their pasts but effectively prepare us for who Matt, Nicole and Dane become, for better and worse, when the going gets tough. It adds up to a skillful kind of mosaic that pays powerful emotional dividends. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrSome things remain a mystery. If we were a little bit better as people, this decent, clear-eyed movie hints, they might not. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThat diffuse focus and meandering narrative is the only real shortcoming in this consequential and touching weeper. |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyOur Friend is very good where it really counts and that's on the small details, the everyday life aspect of doing errands, cooking dinner, while your family is going through this harrowing ordeal. Cancer consumes the patient, but it also ravages the family. |
| Austin ChronicleSteve DavisAside from Segel’s grounding performance, the pleasures of Our Friend lie in some of its observational specifics about human behavior. |
