If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

With two films, this one and 'In the Company of Men' director Neil LuBute seeks to uncover the truth about the lives of disaffected people who's selfish and brutal cruelty toward one another is brought out of selfishness.What I find so interesting about the characters in YFAN is how selfish they are. They all go for their own impulses without ever looking where they leap. Why are they so smug? Probably because they have no idea what a meaningful relationship is all about. Sex for these people is a weapon and they use it to their advantage We get Ben Stiller as a guy who can't have a relationship because he is too ignorant to notice when he is acting like a jerk. Amy Brennemen plays a jilted housewife who can't seem to escape being treated like an object. Aaron Eckhart is the most pathetic character, a man who is more interested then pleasuring himself then his wife. Nastasia Kinsky plays a woman who seems to drift back and forth between men and women. Catherine Keener is a bisexual woman who wants sex but would appreciate her lover would either leave or just shut up.My favorite performance in the movie is by Jason Patric (yes he can act) as a self-satifyed stud who's cruelty sets most of the action in motion. He has the movie's best moment in which he tells a story from his past that is so intriguing that my friends and I were discussing afterwards if it was really true or not.So why see this movie? For the same reason that 'In the Company of Men' was so intriguing. He presents people unvarnished and imagines what cruel things they do to one another. We are allowed to peer inside their lives. He hits hard at difficult subjects and doesn't back away by giving us a happy ending.

This is one of those movies that wallows in the ordinary unhappiness and dysfunction of real life. Sometimes those stories can be entertaining, but this film is undone by pretension, an inability to figure out the most interesting elements of its own story and the inclusion of a character who belongs in a completely different movie.Amy Brennerman and Aaron Eckhart play a married couple. They're friends with Catherine Keener and Ben Stiller, who play a couple who live together. Jason Patric plays Eckhart's and Stiller's bachelor friend and Nastassja Kinski plays a museum assistant they all come into contact with. Brennerman's character is what people used to call "frigid", greatly frustrating her and her husband. Stiller's guy is an emotionally immature chatterbox who somehow ended up with Keener's angry woman that pushes away real intimacy because she's afraid of losing her individuality. Patric plays a narcissistic sociopath who turns into a human cartoon after a bizarre sauna confession that doesn't fit anything else in this movie. Eckhart is, I guess, supposed to be the relatively normal guy the audience can identify with but becomes strangely passive just when a normal person would start to get angry at the miserable things that happen to him. Kinski plays, well, just a needy lesbian.The pretension of this movie is pretty unmistakable. None of the characters are named throughout the film, but then in the credits they all have similar sounding names (Cary, Terri, Jerry, etc). Eckhart, Keener, Patric and Stiller all play the same exact scene with Kinski at different points. This is very much a film that wants to be thought of as clever, but you usually need to be clever to have people think that.The second problem is that the movie is largely focused on its men, when the most interesting characters are Brennerman and Keener. Brennerman is a basically decent woman who can't have a satisfying sexual experience and feels incomplete without it. You can see how the lack inhibits her and how the need energizes her. Keener is a woman who wants to be in a relationship but is desperate to not be part of a "couple". You can see it in how she keeps Stiller at a distance but is heartbroken when she learns of his unfaithfulness and you can see her repeating the same pattern with Kinski, wanting to be together but not wanting to be close. But the story doesn't spend enough time with them and both characters end up being not much more than their emotional problems.And even when the film focuses on its male characters, it gives short shrift to the most compelling facet of their relationships. The dynamic of Stiller and Eckhart living vicariously through Patric's sexual adventures and of Stiller playing the junior partner to the more masculine Eckhart and Patric is only alluded to. We don't get enough of the three of them together and too much of Patric and Stiller on their own.Patric's performance is also wildly misplaced. The movie imagines itself to be about what could be happening with the people who live next door but Patric is like the serial killer who lives down the block. He's hard and cold and sharp and looks like he was teleported in from an alternate dimension compared to the other characters.Keener and Brennerman are quite good and if Your Friends and Neighbors had been more about them, it might have been a worthwhile film. As it stands, I can only recommend it if you can't comprehend how Neil LaBute could go from making In The Company of Men to doing a remake of The Wicker Man. Your Friends and Neighbors might have convinced LaBute and Hollywood that his creative shtick really had nowhere else to go.

I must start by saying that, perhaps, this would have gotten better after the first 40 minutes, but I was saved from further suffering by a scratched DVD. Normally you can hit the chapter skip button and chance losing some continuity, but I don't think it would have mattered. Perhaps the outtakes could be funny, given the rotten, trite dialog. I'm glad I checked this out from the library, because this would have been a terrible date movie.The incredible creepiness of the male characters struck me as the worst aspect of the movie. I got the feeling that they might work up to physical violence. Hopefully not.Not that the women portrayed were much better people, although they did look good, so it was at least worth the second star for that.Needless to say, there wasn't anything funny in this "comedy". We didn't even smile, let alone laugh. Ben's "girlie" glasses were almost funny, but they didn't play it up.Anyway, if you want to see a sad, pathetic movie about sad pathetic people and pretend that it's a comedy, go ahead and borrow this from a library. Just about all libraries would have it, since anyone silly enough to have purchased this wreck would want to get rid of it somehow.

Solid, but not more that. Brenneman's and Keener's characters are totally unsympathetic, especially the former's, which is right-out repulsive. Not boring, but I've seen plenty of this type of pseudo-indie relationshit (half-)comedies, and a lot of them are much better than this one. A good cast, but the ending is hollow, and the only "bite" the film has is its often over-the-top sexual crudeness. Also, a bit predictable; I knew that Kinski & Keener would get involved in a lesbian affair, and I had sensed that Patric would have a homosexual streak in him. How very politically correct to cover both sides of the homosexual fence