“The Friend” is a better dog movie than it is a people movie ... “The Friend” is, among other things, an honest-to-goodness New York movie, one that keeps its geography straight and ...

isn’t your average dog movie. either. Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 National Book Award-winning novel, it stars Watts as Iris, a New York author who reluctantly inherits Apollo (Bing), the ...