Dinner with Friends vs The Starling
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.9/10 for The Starling). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 42m. The Starling is the older of the two (2021 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dinner with Friends
The Starling| Dinner with Friends | The Starling | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.9/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2021 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 42m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Theodore Melfi |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Timothy Olyphant, Daveed Diggs, Rosalind Chao, Kevin Kline, Edi Patterson |
Synopsis
Dinner with Friends
After the parties, jobs, and hook-ups throughout their twenties and into their thirties, eight friends are trying to hold on to their group as they get older and life gets complicated. Over a series of dinners, the group deals with loyalty, loss, and an uncertain future as relationships shift and secrets are unraveled, with each dinner bringing its own dynamic-shifting announcement of reconciliation, unexpected relationships, and betrayal. The…
The Starling
A woman adjusting to life after a loss contends with a feisty bird that's taken over her garden — and a husband who's struggling to find a way forward.
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