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  • 2020
  • PG-13
  • Blue Fox Entertainment
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2020
  • PG-13
  • Blue Fox Entertainment
  • 1 h 31 m

Summary Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. But he's spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son, Michael, who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son and identify an online player who he thinks could be Michael...

Directed By: Carl Hunter

Written By: Frank Cottrell Boyce

  • 2020
  • PG-13
  • Blue Fox Entertainment
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2020
  • PG-13
  • Blue Fox Entertainment
  • 1 h 31 m

Sometimes Always Never

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
67
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. But he's spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son, Michael, who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son and identify an online player who he thinks could be Michael...

Directed By: Carl Hunter

Written By: Frank Cottrell Boyce

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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79% Positive
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Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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21% Mixed
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80
Jun 11, 2020
There’s a terrific ensemble — including Ella-Grace Gregoire as a girl Jack has a crush on — but it’s Nighy who will have you enthralled. He delivers a subtle, nuanced performance that allows the actor to shine while in full support of his costars.
By Kevin Crust FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 3, 2019
This film is a distinct, articulate pleasure.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 3, 2019
The film is also peppered with animation, mid-century kitsch and a touch of whimsy, making Sometimes Always Never seem more like an intimate stage production than an exercise in cinematic self-seriousness.
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70
Jun 17, 2020
Riley, Nighy, Lowe and Agutter all find some truthful, moving place to work from, despite the ever-present threat of being upstaged by a kitschy sconce or an eye-jangling turquoise-and-pink color scheme.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 12, 2020
Nighy is, of course, exceptional in fleshing out what could have been merely a set of irascible tics and traits. And the Andersonisms, while not particularly exhilarating, are not thematically inapt. But this is a film best consumed by those who don’t mind “slight.”
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 18, 2020
What the film does sustain, and quite remarkably, considering its serious theme, is a delicately comic tone. That’s due in large measure to the screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
42
Jun 10, 2020
As with most films that are eventually suffocated by their own eccentricities, Sometimes Always Never is strange enough to hold our attention for a while.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Hurricane Films, BondIt Media Capital, Highfield Grange Studios
Release Date Jun 12, 2020
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline His son is missing, his family is lost but his dress sense is immaculate.
Website https://www.bluefoxentertainment.com/films/sometimes-always-never
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Awards

Cinequest San Jose Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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