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Worth watching for the dog: The Friend reviewed

This sensitive if dramatically underpowered meditation on bereavement stars Bill Murray and Naomi Watts – but your focus will be on Bing the dog

Deborah Ross
Shoo-in for the Palm Dog: Bing, the harlequin Great Dane, with Naomi Watts 
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 26 April 2025
issue 26 April 2025

The Friend is an adaptation of the novel by Sigrid Nunez starring a harlequin Great Dane. If I remember rightly, Naomi Watts and Bill Murray are also in the mix somewhere but I can’t be sure. Who could notice anything but Apollo in all his noble, giant, majesty? Watts and Murray are fine – if they are even in it? – but Bing, who plays Apollo, is astonishing.

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