
Best friends Anna and Beth take a weekend trip to Big Sur, hopeful to re-establish a bond broken by years of competition and jealousy. Tensions mount, however, leading to an unexpected yet inevitable confrontation, changing both of their lives...forever.... (Full plot summary below)
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Best friends Anna and Beth take a weekend trip to Big Sur, hopeful to re-establish a bond broken by years of competition and jealousy. Tensions mount, however, leading to an unexpected yet inevitable confrontation, changing both of their lives...forever.
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| Village VoiceApril WolfeAlways Shine is a potent psychological thriller, all right. But it's also a powerful statement on the very industry that produced it. |
| International Business TimesAlex GarofaloAlways Shine is a potent statement on gender and femininity, disguised as an avant-garde thriller. |
| Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeStrong performances propel a movie that wears its influences (De Palma, Lynch) on its sleeve without feeling like a copycat. |
| New York TimesGlenn KennyAlways 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. |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyAlways Shine is an immersive nightmare of merging, over-identification, and projection. Its strangeness (and I yearned for more strangeness) is part of the fascination. |
| IndiewireEric KohnEven as the movie lingers on the question of whether one woman has more talent than the other, Always Shine is an effective actor’s showcase for both of them. |
| StarburstAndrew MarshallAlways Shine takes a while to make its points fully clear, but the friction and tacit hostility simmering all the way makes for a slow-burning but engrossing watch. |
| Paste MagazineAndy CrumpAlways Shine is a gem of a film, a haunting, sobering depiction of female relationships couched within male-dominated spaces. |
| NewcityRay PrideThe unraveling of sparring personalities comes quickly, but there are other games left for Takal to exact, with cool precision and blessed confidence as things go formally berserk. |
| SF WeeklySherilyn ConnellySophia Takal's unnerving Always Shine is the most overtly (and awesomely) feminist horror movie since last year's Felt. |