Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel, The Friend opens with the prosaic inner monologue of New York author and writing teacher ...

Or rather, it is — but on a more sophisticated and ambitious level. Based on a novel by Sigrid Nunez — whose work also inspired last year’s Pedro Almodóvar film The Room Next Door — The Friend stars ...

The newcomer Bing is full of charm as the dog whose presence causes Watts’s character to confront what’s missing in her life ...

I once got punched in the face by a Great Dane. It was on a farm in Portarlington where I was doing summer work. The beast ...

Co-starring an enormous, soulful Great Dane named Bing, this literary Manhattan drama gives Watts and Bill Murray a forum for ...

Naomi Watts gushed over her model daughter, Kai Schreiber, 16—who she shares with ex-husband Liev Schreiber—as she unveiled ...

Based on the 2018 novel by Sigrid Nunez, The Friend puts Naomi Watts front and centre with pooch pal Bing to bring us a bit of doggy drama comedy. Written and directed by Scott McGehee and David ...

It’s easy enough, then, to understand the profound conundrum facing Iris (Naomi Watts), a writer and professor who suddenly finds herself with a 150-pound Great Dane ward after an unexpected death in ...

One of the finest double acts of the year has received little fanfare, and, with all due respect, the pairing of Naomi Watts ...