Category Archives: Théodore Pellerin

Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)

never rarely sometimes often movie still2020 was a year that felt like the world had turned itself upside down through events that we couldn’t have ever imagined. Despite that, a quiet story came about an age-old worldwide issue (one that could have been told in any year and still be applicable). I found Never Rarely Sometimes Always the most memorable, honest, and authentic film of the year.

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Boy Erased (2018)

After two movies, the jury is still out on Joel Edgerton as a director. After catching fire with 2015’s surprise hit The Gift, Edgerton tried his hand with material based on a true story, adapting and writing the screenplay for Garrard Conley’s novel Boy Erased. To be perfectly transparent, I had extremely high expectations for this film. This was a novel I read a couple of years ago, well before I knew that a movie based on the story was in the process. I enjoyed the book, and when I saw that the cast was to include Edgerton, Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, and Russell Crowe and that it was already being mentioned in Oscar discussions before it was released, I was more than excited. However, I knew that the topic of this film was controversial. When I read the book, I was not dissatisfied with the ending but felt rushed quite a bit. Boy Erased was one of my ten most anticipated films of the year. And like a few others in my ten most anticipated films of the year (namely First Man), it ultimately failed to impress. A film that should have been ripe with emotion left me completely unaffected.

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