Our Friend
critic Reviews
, 86% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score- Our Friend's occasionally frustrating approach to dramatizing its fact-based story is often offset by a trio of starring performances led by a never-better Jason Segel.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreKevin MaherTimes (UK)
The director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, who made the stunning documentary Blackfish, orchestrates the action loosely - the pacing is, at best, leisurely - but the character portraits are acute and the three central performances flawless.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreBilge EbiriSpirituality & Health
Our Friend is a heartbreaking movie, the tears come early and they come often, but it's not without hope.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer Scorett stern-enziWXIX-TV (Cincinnati, OH)
Worth watching. It's not a favorite, because it almost wallows a bit too much in that sadness...but it works, with a few rays of light to open things up a little bit.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreLeonard Maltinleonardmaltin.com
I was tempted to dismissOur Friendas just another movie about a loved one's battle with a fatal disease. Then I watched it. Yes, it's a tearjerker, but it's derived from a first-person article and has three exceptional performances
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreTy BurrBoston Globe
Some things remain a mystery. If we were a little bit better as people, this decent, clear-eyed movie hints, they might not.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDavid FearRolling Stone
Its strength really lies in its ability to recognize grief, in all of its raggedness and messiness, and not shy away from it.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRyan McQuadeInSession Film
I could have spent so much time with these characters in this story but it would have required another box of tissues to get through an extended run time.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAkos PeterbenczeVulnerable Man (Medium)
In the end, Our Friend ends up being much more than just another film that aims to portray the cruel and unspoken truths about cancer and death. It becomes a movie about the beauty of friendship that lies in the important and the smallest moments, too.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreZoë Rose BryantLoud and Clear Reviews
Our Friend’s three terrific leads overcome the narrative’s somewhat scattered structure and suffuse the film with stirring sincerity.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreKeith GarlingtonKeith & the Movies
Aside for some wobbly structuring and a few weird song choices, “Our Friend” is a moving and distinctly human study of love, friendship, commitment, and of what it takes to come out on the other side of such a life-shattering trauma.
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