Release dates
March 7, 2017
100 months agoBlu-ray / VOD / DVD
Released
Always Shine release date
The movie Always Shine is already released on Cinema, Blu-ray, VOD and DVD in the USA.
What the critics say
Based on 10 reviews, Always Shine gets an average review score of 73
Always Shine is a deft, assured movie with a sly self-reflexive undercurrent containing commentary on sexism and self-idealization that’s provocative, and sometimes disturbing.
3064d ago
Nice girls play by the rules. They turn their shoulders inward and nibble on the ends of their slim fingers, nervous about all those difficult thoughts in their heads.
3064d ago
Two actresses chafe against the industry (and each other) in the jagged Always Shine.
3064d ago
In the year 2016, we need thrillers like Always Shine to remind us of the social horrors we're currently up against.
3064d ago
Director Sophia Takal is interested in the murky powerful undertows beneath female friendship, the dark sides of supposed “safe spaces” and just how threatening close female friendship is to whatever status quo that might exist.
3064d ago
As the lines of reality blur, Takal ups the meta-narrative aspects to a detrimental degree. The hasty montages peppered throughout start to become this film’s constant, and the strong thematic backbone built up begins to give way to a throw-everything-at-the-wall mentality. At the height of these genre-heavy thrills, a specific single shot suggesting we’re witnessing an even more meta story offers an intriguing idea, but feels cheap in execution.
3064d ago
A classic case of a film whose reach exceeds its grasp, director Sophia Takal’s audacious psychological thriller Always Shine is half of a great movie that ends up trying to be more than it can handle.
3064d ago
Actor Sophia Takal directs a psychological thriller about two aspiring actresses.
3064d ago
Frenemies taunt one another’s acting changes in thriller that loses psychological edge as it turns meta.
3064d ago
The film undermines the unity of its characterizations, redirecting into garish phantasmagoria.
3064d ago