"Gifting the victim" through a homosocial soliloquy...

"You'd've taken the same steps. Common decency dictated the whole thing."

"In Your Friends and Neighbors, Jason Patric plays Cary, a guy whose every moment on screen is devoted to demonstrating his malevolence, whether he's fondly reminiscing about participating in a homosexual gang rape in high school or terrorizing a lover who dares to get her period while sleeping on his 320-thread-count sheets."
Laura Miller


"Venturing into territory where no modern sitcom is yet prepared to go, although not far from the spot where In the Company of Men left off, Your Friends & Neighbors begins with a flurry of trompe l'oeil nastiness: A sexual athlete rehearses his pillow talk with the help of a tape recorder, a randy professor demonstrates for his students that Restoration comedy is 'always about fucking.' So, too, LaBute's movie--except that, as subsequent vignettes make abundantly clear, fucking is always about power, failure, and humiliation."
J.Hoberman