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Always Shine (2016)
On the way to being a real Lynchian thriller, the wheels came off...
12 June 2020 - 6 out of 11 users found this review helpful.
At first glance, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001) came to mind, as the relationship between two female Hollywood industry friends begins to brew up a storm of jealousy, passive aggressive behavior and mysterious male acquaintances. With plot-appropriate locations and tension building film direction, It had all the right stuff to play out as another one of those rare hit-you-over-the-head and leave you naked with no money thrillers that I love so much.
Regrettably---this never happens. After a climactic estrogen-laced verbal catfight, the female leads seem to switch roles and feed into a sort of emotional ambivalence that takes whatever the story should have been off the tracks and into B-movie ditch.
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