Fresh
The film's quartet of post-slackers are captured as they feel their way around the edges of what they want (and are afraid to ask for) with painful accuracy.
Catherine Bray, Time Out
Drinking Buddies
A comedy about knowing when to say when.
2013 · 1h 30m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Joe Swanberg
Overview
Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Here's a toast to the cast and crew: "Drinking Buddies" is a three-dimensional movie that doesn't require beer goggles.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh
[Swanberg] points the movie in directions that defy our expectations, exploring the characters' immaturity and the entropy of human interaction.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh
Not much happens in Drinking Buddies, which, frankly, is refreshing.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Fresh
"Drinking Buddies" sneaks up on you; you think it's going in one direction, and suddenly it goes somewhere much more interesting.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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