[Note: This is a re-post of our review from the AFI Film Festival; Always Shine expands from NYC to select theaters on December 2] Women who are on the verge of a nervous breakdown is delicious film ...

Sophia Takal’s psychological thriller Always Shine is a quintessentially female film. Any woman who’s friends with other women will know the familiar pang of jealousy and the constant comparisons ...

Talking about the first and second acts of Sophia Takal’s Always Shine without talking about the third is a challenge. The film begins as a story of mounting personal and professional grievances ...

Even if Sophia Takal’s second film were merely a straightforward psychological thriller about the rivalry between two actress friends, it would still be gripping from start to finish. There’s a rising ...

"We could've died out here, and it's your fault!" Oscilloscope Labs has debuted an official trailer for Sophia Takal's Always Shine, a drama about two friends from director Sophia Takal. The film ...

Mackenzie Davis won the Best Actress prize at the Tribeca Film Festival for her turn in this gripping study of friendship and jealousy. It happens every year: The non-stop parade of awards season ...

In Sophia Takal’s Always Shine, two actress friends (Halt and Catch Fire’s Mackenzie Davis and Masters of Sex’s Caitlin FitzGerald), leave Los Angeles for a weekend getaway in hopes of reconnecting.

With the excess of low-budget, retreat-in-the-woods dramas often finding characters hashing out their insecurities through a meta-narrative, a certain initial resistance can occur when presented with ...

Always Shine is a palindromic thriller bursting with formal brilliance and incisive feminist critique. It’s at once a tense drama and a psychological horror story about the nature of performance and ...