Female stoner comedy Never Goin' Back is raunchy and ridiculous, a portrait of girls behaving badly and not giving a f*ck.

| Aug 17, 2018

Their friendship is the film's secret weapon, and its portrayal is what sets Never Goin' Back apart from standard stoner raunch fests.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2018

"Never Goin' Back" is happily silly and low-down and willing to indulge in gross humor, while presenting a story about friendship and about the consequences of growing up with no money or prospects.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 9, 2018

"Never Goin' Back" owes much of its watchability to the actresses' natural chemistry. Together, they paint a portrait of adolescent friendship so vibrant that it makes up for much of the movie's structural flaws.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 9, 2018

Anchored by a pair of effervescent and authentically lived-in performances from Mitchell and Morrone, "Never Goin' Back" is a sweaty, silly summer adventure, and a sincere shout-out to the power of best friendship.

| Aug 8, 2018

A rude, crude, rambling, raucous, sometimes quite gross and often very funny and endearing slice of lives we don't often see portrayed on the big screen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2018

These two actresses have really lovely chemistry with each other.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 3, 2018

I was quite charmed by them.

| Original Score: 7.3/10 | Aug 3, 2018

Anarchic and daring, Never Goin' Back is a tale of adolescent female friendship that is somehow ballsier than your standard dude-driven buddy comedy.

| Original Score: B | Aug 3, 2018

It's breezy, benignly outrageous, equal parts grotty and sweet.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2018

The movie has a ramshackle charm that's due entirely to its vivacious leads, whose mutual devotion and easy, unlabeled sexuality feels endearingly innocent.

| Aug 2, 2018

The two leads have chemistry and a rebellious sort of charisma. Too bad they're given such wheezy clichés to work with.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 2, 2018

Shot with a crisp visual style loaded with inspired pop music, Never Goin' Back has all the polish of its studio-produced equivalents, but more believable angst than a dozen Seth Rogen joints.

| Original Score: B | Aug 1, 2018

Frizzell, making her feature directorial debut, is attuned to the giddy intimacies of female friendship, and Mitchell and Morrone are a charismatic pair.

| Aug 1, 2018

Has something many comedies simply fail to care about: a spark-filled joie de vivre about the stupidity of youth that lifts it above many more cynically crass (and typically male) examples of the genre.

| Aug 1, 2018

Frizzell, who's given her young actors a smart, acid-tongued screenplay to work with, is just as savvy a director, resisting the urge to freshen up the film's harsh environs with sepia-tones and sunlight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2018

Frizzell uses that kinship as a jumping-off point to a funny and surprisingly tender, if at times frustratingly uneven, film.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 30, 2018

A delightfully irresponsible - but also refreshingly generous - girls-gone-wild romp ...

| Mar 13, 2018

This is one of those films that, if shown overseas, could potentially make people think that the U.S. is going down the tubes even faster than imagined. Everyone in it - adolescents and grown-ups, too - is beyond stupid and content to remain that way.

| Jan 30, 2018

The kind of after-a-dorm-party movie that could easily find a cult following over the years.

| Jan 26, 2018