Rent Sometimes Always Never (2018)

Loved it - Sometimes Always Never review by PD

I loved this film, it is in a very particular style which by the look of other reviews many don’t like.I thought it was visually clever and often beautiful, creating a game like look to the piece. It is quirky, gentle, and loving towards its characters. Almost like a modern Chekhov short story .

Quirky and enjoyable - Sometimes Always Never review by CCC

I can see why some people might find this film boring and a bit weird but my friends and I enjoyed it. I often find I enjoy films other people review as boring so have learnt to see it as a sign that this film might be worth watching. I think it is amusing and different; there was review I found online from The Times which was quite nice about the film, I agree with what that review says.

Poignant, beautiful, quirky - Sometimes Always Never review by Old Devonian

We discover through a series of cameos that Mellor (Nighy) brought up two boys on his own as best he could and is a Scrabble fiend and imbued his kids with a love hate relationship with the game. Tragedy hits and the film explores his character and how he is dealing with living with the tragic circumstances and the impact on his extended family. The film is probably low budget, as other commenters have said but so what. The film is beautifully lit to enhance the colorisation which, together with the camera angles gives it a Comic and at times surreal feel. If you go with it and enjoy it as art, you can concentrate on the performances. The cameos by Tim McInery and Jenny Agutter are particularly memorable. The relationship of the Grandson with Mellor and transformation of the grandson is charming. Based on some of the reviews I imagined I would be wasting my time. I am so glad I ignored them. Loved this film.

Charming, quiet, British independant film - Sometimes Always Never review by CP Customer

Well written, witty film. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it, but of course you don't get acting talent like this (Nighy, Riley, Lowe, McInnerny and Agutter) with a bad script.

This won't work for people who like blockbusters or Hollywood largesse, and I guess that is where some of the more negative reviews come from.

Excellent slightly surreal. - Sometimes Always Never review by CP Customer

Bill Night charmingly poignant as ever in this examination of loss and grief. Lovely stylish mise en scene and intelligent diegesis. Great supporting cast - plus a clever mad couple of minutes from Alexei Sayle. The title isn't quite right for the theme which makes me suspect that some connections were left on the cutting room floor. Do watch the deleted scene: you can see why they cut it, but it adds some information that you might be glad to have.

A waste of talent - Sometimes Always Never review by Maureen

Bill Nighy is a good actor, so we assumed this would be a good film. We were really disappointed. Nothing ever seemed to happen so we just gave up after waiting for some action which never came. It should have been titled "never,never,never".

George Roby.

Never (again) - Sometimes Always Never review by DC

It's pretty rare when I can't manage to watch a film all or most of the way through but this was one such occasion. Initial critic reviews seemed promising but when I saw a viewer review mentioning Wes Anderson it flagged up a warning sign for me as I am not a fan of any single one of his films as I find them just irritating as hell. Anyway so was this effort - well the 30 minutes I could stand of it. Everything was so mannered and false and unbelievable for no justifiable reason I could see. There are so many great, low budget British films and absolutely anything by Ken Loach is light years better. Poor....very poor.