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  • 2018
  • R
  • A24
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2018
  • R
  • A24
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary Angela (Maia Mitchell) and Jessie (Camila Morrone) dream of escaping their waitressing jobs at a low-rent Texas diner, even if it's only to Galveston. Taking place over just a few days, the film follows their hilarious and unpredictable misadventures on the streets of suburban Dallas as they attempt increasingly madcap and wild schemes t...

Directed By: Augustine Frizzell

Written By: Augustine Frizzell

  • 2018
  • R
  • A24
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2018
  • R
  • A24
  • 1 h 25 m

Never Goin' Back

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
62
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
6.6
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Summary Angela (Maia Mitchell) and Jessie (Camila Morrone) dream of escaping their waitressing jobs at a low-rent Texas diner, even if it's only to Galveston. Taking place over just a few days, the film follows their hilarious and unpredictable misadventures on the streets of suburban Dallas as they attempt increasingly madcap and wild schemes t...

Directed By: Augustine Frizzell

Written By: Augustine Frizzell

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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68% Positive
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32% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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68% Positive
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32% Mixed
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0% Negative
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80
Aug 2, 2018
Watching Never Goin’ Back, it’s easy to see the frames of reference Frizzell pulled from, besides her own teenage escapades. But the film also defies easy categorization; it’s not consistently funny enough to be a comedy, nor lively enough to be a drama.
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75
Aug 2, 2018
Anarchic and daring, Never Goin’ Back is a tale of adolescent female friendship that is somehow ballsier than your standard dude-driven buddy comedy. Frizzell’s film is as fearless as her heroines, and it refuses to judge them for their bad behavior.
By Kimber Myers FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 2, 2018
By rights, Never Goin’ Back should be a chore to sit through. The jokes are dated, the behavior tasteless and the setups tired. Yet the movie has a ramshackle charm that’s due entirely to its vivacious leads, whose mutual devotion and easy, unlabeled sexuality feels endearingly innocent.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
68
Aug 1, 2018
Never Goin’ Back, which Frizzell has admitted is in ways an honest, personal reckoning with incidents in her own fumbling adolescence, has something many comedies simply fail to care about: a spark-filled joie de vivre about the stupidity of youth that lifts it above many more cynically crass (and typically male) examples of the genre.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
63
Jul 25, 2018
A scruffy, raunchy and random farce.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 10, 2018
It’s supposed to be a screwball comedy but someone forgot to include the laughs.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
40
May 11, 2018
This is one of those films that, if shown overseas, could potentially make people think that the U.S. is going down the tubes even faster than imagined. Everyone in it — adolescents and grown-ups, too — is beyond stupid and content to remain that way.
By Todd McCarthy FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
6.6
45% Positive
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45% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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45% Positive
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45% Mixed
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9% Negative
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Production Company Sailor Bear, Mama Bear Studios, Ten to the Six Pictures, Zero Trans Fat Productions
Release Date Aug 3, 2018
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating R
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Website http://nevergoinback.jp/
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Awards

Americana Film Fest
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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