Directed and written by Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always tracks the journey of a seventeen-year-old named Autumn from her blue-collar town in Pennsylvania to New York City to get an abortion. The film was released in the US in mid-March before the pandemic limited its public debut. After initially learning that she is pregnant, Autumn finds she cannot have an abortion in Pennsylvania without parental approval, something she knows she can’t rely on from her parents, who are essentially…
I waited a whole 115 minutes for the pre-movie commercials to end but then I think there was an error and it skipped straight to the credits.
The best representation of December 2020 is Dan Aykroyd as a homeless man in a dirty Santa Claus suit eating a whole salmon on a bus.
When the end credits began to role, my friend turned to me and said, “that made me never want to touch an instrument ever again” and I think that pretty accurately sums it up.
Whiplash gets under your skin like almost no other movie. You don’t have to be a musician to be able to relate to the protagonist’s obsession, but the music is an effective way to display Andrew’s unhealthy mania. I have seen others say otherwise but I…
