Drinking Buddies is that thing that they say doesn't get made much anymore-a well-executed, charming, effective, and plausible romantic comedy.

| Aug 28, 2019

Not much happens but it has plenty to say.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2017

Drinking Buddies could suffer a little from its marketing, which may suggest to some audiences that it is just a regular rom com. But luckily, it is nothing like that. It is something much, much better.

| Aug 11, 2017

Swanberg is not so much kowtowing to romcom convention as putting great care into crafting something idiosyncratic, sneakily intelligent-and totally disposable.

| Nov 4, 2013

Workshopped, improvised and mostly shot in small spaces, Swanberg's intimate drama is teased out with killer, subtle performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2013

The acting and improv, by the whole cast, is sublime ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2013

It feels like a slicker, sleeker version of the cruddy DV odysseys of yore, and yet at its (mumble) core, it's just more of the same minor-key doodling.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2013

A lo-fi relationship drama that is interesting, if unevenly presented.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2013

This is thoughtful film-making with a keen sense of humour, and we can all drink to that.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2013

Flat as day-old beer.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2013

Here's a toast to the cast and crew: "Drinking Buddies" is a three-dimensional movie that doesn't require beer goggles.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2013

If you're going to build an entire film on microexpressions, then a certain innate magnetism is required. Swanberg gets it in spades from his top-shelf cast.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 13, 2013

[Swanberg] points the movie in directions that defy our expectations, exploring the characters' immaturity and the entropy of human interaction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 12, 2013

Not much happens in Drinking Buddies, which, frankly, is refreshing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 6, 2013

"Drinking Buddies" sneaks up on you; you think it's going in one direction, and suddenly it goes somewhere much more interesting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 5, 2013

Swanberg doesn't exactly reinvent the romantic-comedy formula, but he explores it in unexpected ways, with a terrific cast making the relationships all the more genuine and enjoyable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2013

A meandering, unfocused kind-of love story among 20 and 30-somethings that grates as much as it pleases.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 5, 2013

Swanberg achieves an occasionally heady aura of improvisational flirtatiousness mixed with a churning will-they-or-won't-they suspense.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 30, 2013

Drinking Buddies walks a fine line between the mundane and the meaningful, but the actors walking it are top-notch.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2013