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“Friendship,” for half an hour or so, gives Craig a masochistic relatability. But once he loses his grip, we’re simply watching him dissolve and become more and more dislocated. And that happens to the film too. “Friendship” is like the story of “Saturday Night Live” character sketch who lands in the middle of an Ari Aster nightmare.