‎Should Men Have Friends? A starter pack of twenty compelling films that make the case • Journal • A Magazine • , Life in canada

All any of us want in life is for someone to say, “You get me.” You can achieve that with a romantic partner, but the promise of a lifetime of friendship is something else. “I want to hang out all the time, I’m too needy,” Dylan O’Brien’s grieving twin Roman tells Dennis (James Sweeney) in Twinless, a compelling, deceptively complex new picture about male friendship that relishes the good, the bad, the ugly and the needy parts of it.

The film follows a long lineage of pictures showing all facets of this specific kind of relationship: childhood besties, teen soulmates, unlikely partners, ride-or-die bromances—male friendship has many faces. Some pure and innocent, others a little messier, fraught or even deceitful. Toxic masculinity is one thing, but what about what we have to worry about when men have nobody to talk to but each other?