Joshy is a little underwhelming when you first watch it, but the more you think about it and let it marinate, it tends to grow on you.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 19, 2019

It 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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 1, 2018

... Joshy would have succeeded had it felt comfortable enough it its own skin to play out without a third act twist that ultimately derails everything that has been set up.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Aug 31, 2016

Few movies about groups of male friends do such a strong job with the dynamics between individual people and the collection as a whole.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2016

Ultimately, Joshy claims to be a story in defense of its main character's right to a story all his own, even though the film never steps away from him long enough to make us consider that this was even a palpable threat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 18, 2016

Joshy is perhaps best viewed as a revision of The Hangover, and several other weekend bromances... all too eager to imitate, if not advertise, the illusory notion that senselessly participating in fraternal rites of passage will lead to happiness.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 18, 2016

It's not a tight effort, but we've seen this permissive style of movie before, and it rarely turns out this well.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 17, 2016

It's a fascinating depiction of the way men do -- or don't -- confront life's tragedies and traumas.

| Aug 17, 2016

An accomplished cast boosts this uneven low-budget comedy.

| Aug 12, 2016

You probably wouldn't want to spend that much time with these people yourself, but at least they're never boring.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 12, 2016

"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.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 12, 2016

Alcohol-induced shambling, cocaine-induced motor-mouthing and mushroom-induced melancholia are depicted with sobering accuracy.

| Aug 11, 2016

Baena delivers a quiet and largely plotless dramedy that walks the line between goofy bro comedy and mumblecore drama.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 11, 2016

An engagingly perceptive and often darkly funny glimpse at wrestling with issues of adulthood after a life of seemingly endless adolescence.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 11, 2016

Joshy uses so much architecture from indie-movie blueprints and uses so many comic actors as building blocks that it briefly seems like an elaborate spoof project.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 11, 2016

With 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.

| Original Score: 8.1/10 | Aug 10, 2016

Joshy isn't fun. It doesn't want to be. It's far more focused on the moment when fun becomes discomfort.

| Aug 10, 2016

The film feels most real, even at its most absurd, when focused on the idea of closure as a kind of fantasy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2016

Ace performances all around, each perching on the razor's edge between comedy and tragedy, and falling freely from one side to the other.

| Jun 18, 2016

Though at times the film feels like an improvised mess, it creeps up on a surprisingly heartwrenching-and heartwarming-conclusion.

| Jun 18, 2016