Dinner with Friends
Eight longtime friends test whether loyalty can survive adulthood, betrayal, and an increasingly unstable world.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- None
- intimate
- melancholic
- hopeful
- reflective evening
- group movie night
What critics said
Available aggregate reception is mixed, with limited audience data and no detailed critical consensus supplied.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Each dinner produces an announcement involving reconciliation, unexpected relationships, betrayal, or another shift in the friends' collective balance.
The eight friends try to preserve their group while jobs, relationships, loss, and age complicate their connection.
The city's deterioration and changing climate intensify the friends' worries about their shared future and the wider world.
The city itself is described as crumbling, mirroring the group's fears and increasingly unstable relationships.
Films like Dinner with Friends, and why
The Big Chill
shared intimate ensemble drama, shifting friendships, emotional disclosures, and dinner-table tension
The Humans
shared family-and-friendship realism, quiet interpersonal conflict, and reflective domestic atmosphere
Still Walking
shared contemplative ensemble storytelling, relationship strain, and understated emotional revelations over shared meals
Movie Details
- Director
- Sasha Leigh Henry
- Release Date
- 2025-09-09
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rating
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
Cast
- Tattiawna Jones
- Izaak Smith
- Andrew Bushell
- Rakhee Morzaria
- Alex Spencer
- Tymika Tafari
- Michael Ayres
- Leighton Alexander Williams
Common questions
- What is Dinner with Friends about?
- Eight longtime friends test whether loyalty can survive adulthood, betrayal, and an increasingly unstable world.
- What is Dinner with Friends like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Dinner with Friends as measured, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Dinner with Friends violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Dinner with Friends.
- What did critics think of Dinner with Friends?
- Available aggregate reception is mixed, with limited audience data and no detailed critical consensus supplied.
- Which films are like Dinner with Friends?
- Films with a similar feel include The Big Chill, The Humans, and Still Walking.
- How long is Dinner with Friends?
- Dinner with Friends runs 96 minutes.
