It’s gross and grimy, hot and sticky, but never exploitative.

| Feb 13, 2024

What really infuses Never Goin' Back with some extra electricity, though, is Frizzell's dedication to finding life in small details.

| Original Score: B | Feb 4, 2021

Never Goin' Back is the best comedy yet though, an ideal reflection of its own characters' impulses and desires. It feels like the kind of movie they'd make about themselves; maybe, in fact, it is.

| Dec 8, 2020

The punchlines aren't even enough to elicit groans at points, and the most 'outrageous' of gags carry a first draft, 'that's it?' quality to them.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 25, 2020

The comedy in the film is oftentimes predictable, but it mostly works for such a short and sweet production.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2019

Frizzell's witty screenplay and electric directing style makes Never Goin' Back the perfect love letter for teen rebellion.

| Original Score: B | Mar 30, 2019

[The girls] bawdiness is no worse than something in the average, male-dominated, gross-out comedy, some viewers just won't be comfortable....

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Dec 22, 2018

Ultimately no life lessons are learned, but you can't help but root for these misfits to realize their goal of eating donuts by the ocean.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2018

Never gets enough above its genre conventions to find a way into heart or head.

| Nov 27, 2018

Augustine Frizzell's Never Goin' Back presents a gloriously trashy and uproariously raunchy comedy about two besties having the worst week ever.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Nov 20, 2018

The resourcefully off-kilter Never Goin' Back has a cynically charming yet blunt aura about its problematic protagonists. Both Mitchell and Morrone bring a caustic kookiness to their roles...

| Nov 6, 2018

"Never Goin' Back" is one of several movies this year, including "Flower" and "Assassination Nation," which let teenage girls be just as gross as their male counterparts. You wouldn't think gags about throwing up and constipation could be so empowering.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 1, 2018

"Never Goin' Back" suggests a bright future for filmmaker Augustine Frizzell.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2018

Never Goin' Back, on the surface, has the appearance of another low-ball stoner comedy, but ends up being a sweetly natured buddy flick, that would do the likes of Cheech and Chong very proud

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 11, 2018

Transcends its stoner comedy roots and makes something unique out of them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2018

The smartly dumb Never Goin' Back is a blissfully low-rent comedy that occasionally approaches the rarified, hazy air of the sainted first half of Cheech and Chong's Next Movie. Absolutely no lessons are learned, thankfully.

| Sep 7, 2018

That you have no trouble believing the characters' actions may say something about the actresses' abilities. Neither, however, do you care.

| Aug 27, 2018

You don't often see these characters on screen -- young, financially embarrassed but unashamed women determined to seek their hedonistic bliss while taking neither guff nor notes from the menfolk.

| Original Score: 87/100 | Aug 24, 2018

Powered by the impeccable chemistry of Mitchell and Morrone and an eclectic debut by writer/director Augustine Frizzell, Never Goin' Back is a laid back summer comedy that makes you eager to see what the mentioned three will do next.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2018

Screamingly funny and unexpectedly quite tender. It's like "Beaches," but with bumps of blow and weed butter.

| Aug 21, 2018