All My Friend’s Hate Me arrives at cinemas across the UK and Ireland today. Here is a round up of reviews ahead of its release:

Ciinerama Film gave the film a five star review summarising it as one of the best British comedies in years: ‘It has a wickedly macabre sense of humour that is as hilarious as it is cringe-inducing, playing up that shared social anxiety and embarrassment ten-fold – we need more horror comedies like this’ https://cineramafilm.com/2022/06/09/all-my-friends-hate-me/

BBC Radio 4’s Front Row – the channel’s flagship arts show – gave a positive review: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001813d

The Daily Telegraph gave the film a four star review: ‘With its watch-through-your-fingers cringe factor, this is an excellent black comedy of amiss-ness all round…. The whole film works a treat.’ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/friends-hate-review-sublimely-cringey-comedy-millennials-fibs/

Empire gave the film a four star review: ‘This is the cinematic embodiment of social anxiety. Impressively lean in its storytelling, it manages to wrap thoroughly relatable millennial neuroticism, laugh-out-loud awkwardness and a unique character study into a slick, brilliantly British, genre-infused package.’ https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/all-my-friends-hate-me/

The Times gave the film a four star review: ‘this savagely funny debut is a bleak riposte to an entire genre of quirky Richard Curtis-inspired “posh” comedies. From the opening shot, of ostensible hero Pete driving through lush countryside while warbling ecstatically to the MOR classic What a Fool Believes by Michael McDonald, the stage is clearly set for something special.’ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/all-my-friends-hate-me-review-savage-yet-funny-exploration-of-the-nature-of-friendship-596c067kc

Alice Jones also interviewed Tom Stourton for The Times ahead of the film’s release: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tom-stourton-this-is-just-a-really-costly-therapy-session-for-me-86z35q3w5

And Ellie Harrison interviewed Tom Stourton and Tom Palmer for The Independent, describing the film as jumping between ‘hilarity, menace and despair, is a sort of social torture porn that skewers posh millennial angst’: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/all-my-friends-hate-me-tom-stourton-palmer-b2088076.html

The Spectator gave it a positive review describing it as ‘a vortex of tension and anxiety.’: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/it-s-taken-me-days-to-uncringe-all-my-friends-hate-me-reviewed

The i newspaper gave the film a four star review:’Unpredictable and drolly funny – often in a way that makes you grimace – All My Friends Hate Me hits on the subtleties of class dynamics with razor precision.’ https://inews.co.uk/culture/all-my-friends-hate-me-review-film-movie-tom-stourton-posh-people-1677508

Time Out gave the film a four star review:’The effect is like being in a pressure cooker of social awkwardness, building to a twist ending that’s borderline painful to witness. See it and you’ll want to give that next college reunion a hard pass.’ https://www.timeout.com/movies/all-my-friends-hate-me-2022

The Arts Desk described the film as ‘compulsively watchable, in an increasingly grim way’ in its three star review: https://theartsdesk.com/film/all-my-friends-hate-me-review-beware-bilious

The Independent gave the film a three star review:’Here’s a film that leaves you with the same sickly, hollow feeling you might get spending time with the ghosts of your own past.’ https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/all-my-friends-hate-me-film-review-b2097465.html

The Upcoming’s three star review acknowledges that ‘It’s a skill to make a scene genuinely uncomfortable to watch, but All My Friends Hate Me manages to do it again and again’: https://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2022/06/06/all-my-friends-hate-me-movie-review/

Finally, The Guardian gave it a fairly positive two star describing it as ‘a weirdly unrelaxed dark satire.’: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/08/all-my-friends-hate-me-review-dark-satire-on-quarterlife-crisis-from-viral-comedy-duo