Paul Rudd’s New Comedy With Tim Robinson Is I Love You, Man for the A24 Generation

Tim Robinson has a comic persona different from that of any other funny dude currently working.

Robinson traffics in a version of cringe comedy, but that long-established subgenre is now capacious enough to include more than one kind of taboo-breaking social misfit.

Friendship plays as a sort of inverted sequel to the 2009 comedy I Love You, Man , in which Paul Rudd played the needy beta to Jason Segel .

Tim Robinson’s anarchic comedic talent of Tim Robinson is enough to sell this bold if uneven experiment in squirm-inducing metacomedy.

The movie's disinterest in online phenomena like the radicalizing “manosphere” means that its insights are mostly limited to the interactions between these two particular men.