Director Carl Hunter infuses Sometimes Always Never with creative visual touches, whether he’s using graphics to illustrate certain Scrabble words, or shooting a poignant scene through a patterned glass door, so we feel the emotions of the character in question just through the movement of his silhouette.

Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

As with most films that are eventually suffocated by their own eccentricities, Sometimes Always Never is strange enough to hold our attention for a while.

The film unites its seemingly disparate strands of somber drama and deadpan comedy into a surprisingly cohesive whole.

Jake Cole

Slant Magazine