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Like the grieving Scrabble enthusiast at the heart of its unique story, Sometimes Always Never scores high enough to be well worth a play.
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It's no real murder-mystery, but it does pose questions that transcend who did what to whom and when. One of which being whether or not you can really play "jazz" in Scrabble. October 4, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's no real murder-mystery, but it does pose questions that transcend who did what to whom and when. One of which being whether or not you can really play "jazz" in Scrabble.
Anne T. Donahue
Often, the whole shebang plays like a rattle bag of tropes, digressions and stray running gags. Then again, that randomness is perfectly apt... June 23, 2019 | Full Review…
Often, the whole shebang plays like a rattle bag of tropes, digressions and stray running gags. Then again, that randomness is perfectly apt...
Leslie Felperin
An off-beat comedy written by Frank Cottrell Boyce in which Bill Nighy plays a controlling, mordantly witty Scouser coming to terms with the unwritten rules of life. June 16, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
An off-beat comedy written by Frank Cottrell Boyce in which Bill Nighy plays a controlling, mordantly witty Scouser coming to terms with the unwritten rules of life.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
The sweet emotional payoff is an unexpected reward. June 14, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The sweet emotional payoff is an unexpected reward.
Kevin Maher
The appeal of a Bill Nighy character is hard to pin down. While his overall attitude to life is pessimistic, an irresistible desire to look for the joke lurking behind the bad news keeps breaking through and brightening the picture. March 15, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
The appeal of a Bill Nighy character is hard to pin down. While his overall attitude to life is pessimistic, an irresistible desire to look for the joke lurking behind the bad news keeps breaking through and brightening the picture.
Sandra Hall
This film is a distinct, articulate pleasure. October 13, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This film is a distinct, articulate pleasure.
Peter Bradshaw
Sometimes Always Never moves at a glacial pace towards a predictable father-and-son reckoning. January 22, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Sometimes Always Never moves at a glacial pace towards a predictable father-and-son reckoning.
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
This is a family in deep distress and the actors interpret the story realistically; there is no faux sentimentality, just characters driven by desperate needs for outcomes that may never happen. October 7, 2019 | Full Review…
This is a family in deep distress and the actors interpret the story realistically; there is no faux sentimentality, just characters driven by desperate needs for outcomes that may never happen.
Anne Brodie
Sometimes Always Never may take its title from the rules a man must follow when buttoning up a suit jacket, but the rules of grief are not so clear. October 5, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Sometimes Always Never may take its title from the rules a man must follow when buttoning up a suit jacket, but the rules of grief are not so clear.
Courtney Small
In Scrabble-speak, one could say that Bill Nighy lands a double word score in Sometimes Always Never. The film itself, however, doesn't net as many points. October 4, 2019 | Full Review…
In Scrabble-speak, one could say that Bill Nighy lands a double word score in Sometimes Always Never. The film itself, however, doesn't net as many points.
Pat Mullen
Nighy is always excellent, securing emotion as the production teeters on the edge of cutesiness. October 3, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Nighy is always excellent, securing emotion as the production teeters on the edge of cutesiness.
Brian Orndorf
A little too try-hard Wes-Anderson-whimsical in its visual style, Sometimes, Always, Never succeeds as a sweet and emotionally resonant tale about grief, loss, and remembering those who are still there. October 2, 2019 | Full Review…
A little too try-hard Wes-Anderson-whimsical in its visual style, Sometimes, Always, Never succeeds as a sweet and emotionally resonant tale about grief, loss, and remembering those who are still there.
Rebecca Harrison
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