We Are Your Friends

MA15+
2015
|
96 mins
Trailer
Poster for We Are Your Friends

Zac Efron leads this feature as an aspiring DJ hitting up the Hollywood electronic music scene. Pursuing his craft down... More

Where to watch We Are Your Friends

We Are Your Friends is available to stream in Australia... More now on Stan and Google Play.

We Are Your Friends | Ratings & Reviews

"A film about DJing and electronic music production is off to an immediately problematic start, because song selection and beat matching isn’t fun to watch, and neither is sitting in front of a laptop trying to hatch a banger. On the other hand, what the increasingly tiresome and rapidly overlapping worlds of superstar DJs and EDM have in common is globetrotting celebrity and unbridled hedonism. Barely acknowledging either, We Are Your Friends is instead the rote sort of underdog tale that Hollywood rolls out to cash in on every fad from punk rock to skateboarding."

Flicks, Steve NewallFlicks

"Efron is the fresh-faced young mixmaster at the center of Max Joseph's brashly entertaining but earnestly predictable EDM soap opera."

VarietyVariety

"Crucially, the film never pretends that deejaying is a mystical (or even valid) art form -- Cole just wants to express himself, and Efron taps into the same sad tenderness that made him such a tragicomic revelation in Neighbors."

Time OutTime Out

"If the filmmakers were aiming to mimic the flow of electronic dance music, they succeeded. The action slowly builds and breaks down, with dance beats kicking in periodically. Not much resonates here; it's all facile entertainment."

The New York TimesThe New York Times

"A return to intriguing form for Zac Efron after the patience-testing trials of That Awkward Moment and Bad Neighbours."

The GuardianThe Guardian

"A fun, visually engaging "primer" on the sweet science of mixing..."

StuffStuff

"The movie never quite decides if it wants to be a sensitive drama of self-actualization or a playful party movie and ultimately misses the mark on both counts."

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times

"Fast, fun and feel-good."

Hollywood ReporterHollywood Reporter

"Zac Efron makes a convincing bid for movie stardom — and Ratajkowski proves she’s more than just a pretty face — in this flawed but fitfully entertaining film, even if it all goes a bit Pete Tong at the end."

Empire MagazineEmpire Magazine

We Are Your Friends | Details

Rating
MA15+, Strong coarse language
Runtime
96
Genre
Drama, Music
Country of origin
USA