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Drinking Buddies is a romantic comedy that doesn’t feel much like one. Or at least, not a run-of-the-mill, recycled-formula one. Refreshing and nuanced, it’s When Harry Met Sally played for plausible drama rather than big laughs; a ‘will they, won’t they?’ with something to say about the complex, delicate nature …

Comedians as conjurors? It didn’t work out so well for Mitchell and Webb with Magicians (2007). Luckily, Steve Carell and Jim Carrey have a few more tricks up their sleeves, even if unpredictability does an early vanishing act. Carell is Burt, a millionaire Vegas illusionist whose ‘magical friendship’ with childhood …