Bill Murray and Naomi Watts star as best friends in THE FRIEND, a comedy-drama about a friend leaving his beloved pet, a Great Dane named Apollo, to his best friend. The friend didn’t let the bestie ...

There are three great performances in "The Friend," and only two of them are from humans. Naomi Watts leads this sharp, buoyant drama about life, death and companionship. She plays Iris, the best ...

Naomi Watts’s most frequent scene partner in her new movie, “The Friend,” is a Great Dane named Bing. Acting with an animal can’t be easy—it requires a sustained commitment to artifice opposite a ...

The film version of The Friend, Sigrid Nunez’s cerebral, plot-light novel, is longer than it needs to be, but you have to love a movie that quotes Samuel Beckett in its first 10 minutes and then ...

‘The Friend’ depicts two characters coping with a friend’s suicide — his longtime companion and his dog. Grief affects people differently, but it’s easy to forget that humans are not the only ones ...

In a chaotic world, we often search for comfort on screen, in shows like “Call the Midwife” (which I wrote about this week) and movies like “The Friend.” Based on Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel and adapted ...