“We Are Your Friends” is, at the end of the day, a harmless movie that’s difficult to strongly recommend, but one I’d encourage readers to take on a spin once.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 9, 2024

...like the central character featured here, We Are Your Friends has a bad reputation, but if you’re prepared to shut up and enjoy the music and some blissed-out visuals, it’s a surprisingly smooth ride...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2024

Assures that fighting uncertainty with action is the closest thing there is to hope.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 2, 2021

Appears to be a teen movie but Cole's coming-of-age and Efron's performance feel very grown up.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 3, 2021

Through phoned-in performances, a cringe-inducing script and lazy direction, We Are Your Friends sets the reputation of the EDM art form back years.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 4, 2019

We Are Your Friends won't make you want to be any of these characters' friends. Even the saddening event that happens later on, and serves as the turning point for Efron's character, lands no impact.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 2, 2019

WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS has enough beats per minute to keep the party going.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 1, 2019

It has the emotional content of a three-minute dance track.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2019

Zac Efron, in the central role of Cole, does a lot of that funny thing with his eyes that he mistakes for acting, while director Max Joseph concentrates on pointing his voyeuristic camera at Emily Ratajkowski's chest.

| Oct 30, 2017

What Friends needs is a leading man who can propel us past the inherent boredom of this artistic endeavor by virtue of his charisma, but Zac Efron is not that guy...

| Oct 16, 2017

Efron is a natural and likeable presence on screen and has proven to be a pretty decent actor in films like Hairspray and The Paperboy. But the problem with "regularness" is that, in the wrong hands, it's kind of dull.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 12, 2016

'We Are Your Friends' is a big-screen soap opera-all beautiful people, all the time, who wear very small bathing suits, and jump up and down near swimming pools to 128 bpm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 10, 2016

With endless talk of BPM and EQ levels, DJ-ing is - at best - inherently uncinematic and, at worst, dull as a dust cover.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 6, 2016

We Are Your Friends is an entertaining film, if only to pass the time. But it won't give you anything deep or meaningful; it's one of those movie options to enjoy with the kind of friends with no interest in cinema at all. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 2, 2016

Not unlike the generation it's trying to represent, We Are Your Friends never really takes the time to consider what it would like to say.

| Original Score: C | Feb 21, 2016

The execution is so laden with dated stylistic quirks that it feels like a relic from the late 1990s. The plot is pretty cookie-cutter too.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2016

Efron is utterly convincing as Cole, a guy dreaming of creating a dance track that will turn him into the next big thing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2016

When it's trying to be a stern melodrama about achieving your dreams and igniting your passion, it comes off as inadvertently laughable.

| Dec 8, 2015

We Are Your Friends is a blatant retread of Saturday Night Fever, a cynical move built on the assumption that most millennials haven't seen the original.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 3, 2015

There's something sick at the very centre of this party culture, and the movie wanders around it - poking at its festering sores and cataract eyes - without actually taking its pulse.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 15, 2015