By the time Drinking Buddies was released in 2013, Joe Swanberg had established himself as a prominent figure in the mumblecore scene. He had already directed over a dozen films, all of which belonged ...

“Drinking Buddies,” Joe Swanberg’s deceivingly jolly, sharply alert romantic comedy, doesn’t just pay homage to those confusing unspoken feelings, but engages in that very opaqueness ...