Synopsis
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
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Cast
- Sidney FlaniganAutumn
- Talia RyderSkylar
- Théodore PellerinJasper
- Ryan EggoldTed
- Sharon Van EttenMother
- Eliazar JimenezElvis Impersonator
- David BunetaClean Cut Teenage Boy
- Christian ClementsClean Cut Teenage Boy
- Sam DuggerClean Cut Teenage Boy
- Aurora RichardsLittle Sister
Recommendations
- 100
The Playlist
What an extraordinary film this is. - 100
Variety
At once dreamlike and ruthlessly naturalistic, steadily composed yet shot through with roiling currents of anxiety, Never Rarely Sometimes Always is a quietly devastating gem. - 95
TheWrap
Hittman wades into one of the more charged subjects of our time — abortion access — with the kind of sensitivity, focus and detail that will ensure its place as a dramatic standard for how to put a human face on a controversial topic. - 91
The Film Stage
Hittman has provided an essential, specific look at just one person’s struggle to have control over her own body. By doing so with such a delicate, considered perspective, she’s giving a voice to millions of women going through the same experience. And it’s time to listen. - 91
IndieWire
Yes, it’s a searing examination of the current state of this country’s finicky abortion laws and the medical professionals tasked with enforcing them (from the small-minded to the big-hearted), and if art can have any impact on its consumers, the film will stick with many of its viewers, perhaps even changing long-held beliefs. But it’s also a singular look at what it means to be a teenage girl today, and with all the joy and pain that comes with it. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
The teen-abortion factor tags Never Rarely Sometimes Always as an issue drama, and in the most unconventional way, it is — raw, haunting and painfully real. But it's perhaps better defined as a moving snapshot of female friendship, solidarity and bravery. - 90
Los Angeles Times
The movie’s sympathies, much like its political convictions, couldn’t be clearer. But paradoxically, what makes “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” so forceful — and certainly the most searingly confrontational American drama about abortion rights in recent memory — is its quality of understatement, its determination to build its argument not didactically but cinematically. - 88
RogerEbert.com
With stunning performances from two completely genuine young leads, this is a movie people will talk about all year.
