This documentary is less a documentary and more a breezy road film, propelled by the irresistible camaraderie of two funny people at the wheel.

| Oct 21, 2024

The presence of Ferrell and director Josh Greenbaum’s documentary crew is obviously a safety net, but nonetheless this is mostly a feel-good affirmation.

| Oct 11, 2024

It broadens one’s understanding of the world and the humans who populate it. And it makes everyone feel good.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 7, 2024

Will & Harper is a beautiful portrait of friendship and humanity.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 4, 2024

It’s sweet, funny, very entertaining, and a little circumspect about its own rules of the road.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 2, 2024

It’s the sort of movie you hope everyone will watch, and the kind that pretty much anyone who approaches it with good will may find both thought-provoking and a whole lot of fun.

| Oct 1, 2024

A poignant and frequently very funny portrait of their evolving relationship. But that’s as far as it goes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2024

Will & Harper, a natural Netflix entertainment, oscillates between sincere openness and painful artifice. Nobody is here expecting rigorous fly-on-the-wall verite.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2024

It’s as wholesome, and as American, as it gets.

| Sep 27, 2024

This is not so much a movie about a straight and cisgender-identifying person learning how to accept his old pal in a new package.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2024

But if the tone is affably mainstream, the journey is not without pain.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2024

It all comes directly from the heart and attests to the comfort and solace that comes from friendship, and demonstrates that when we walk in someone else’s shoes, we all become more enlightened and pave a trail to a more compassionate world.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 25, 2024

Tender and heartfelt, “Will & Harper” rings most true when it ditches the gimmicks and sticks to the comedians in (and out of) cars, getting real.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2024

An affectionate road-trip buddy-movie, featuring an unseen depth to Will Ferrell, this documentary is illuminating, timely, and gently funny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2024

These are two old friends, trusting each other, being honest with one another, sharing with one another. It’s just lovely.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 14, 2024

Yet for all these quibbles, the interludes when Harper opens up are raw and devastating.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2024

... It’s a film that offers something too little found: hope.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2024

"Will & Harper" is a tad gimmicky at times... but if those gags help bring eyeballs to a story that deserves to be seen by as wide an audience as possible, then so be it. This destination is well worth the journey.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 13, 2024

Nothing here is inauthentic or dishonest, but both subjects are storytellers by nature, and they’re never fully disconnected from the camera in front of them. They know the kind of story that needs to be told, and what vulnerability is demanded from them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2024

Just like Will doesn’t have to be perfect to be a great friend to Harper, this documentary doesn’t need to be perfect to be meaningful.

| Sep 13, 2024