Joe Swanberg and his Drinking Buddies take on Hollywood The Boston Globe

But in Boston promoting “Drinking Buddies” (opening here Sept. 13), Swanberg is not so pugnacious. Maybe that’s because the new film, a hip romantic comedy about the tangled relationships of co-workers at a brewery, looks like it might be his big breakthrough. Or maybe it’s just because the director understands why some people hate his movies. “Their criticism isn’t wrong,” he admits. “But there was a reason why they were like that. In the mid-2000s when I started making movies, reality looked like YouTube and reality television. I was interested in conveying that reality. So the movies needed to be…