You Were Never Really Here
A contract killer uncovers a conspiracy while trying to save a kidnapped teen from a life of prostitution.
17 December 1939, Brooklyn, New York, USA
30 November 1934
31 October 1969, Long Island, New York, USA
7 February 1936, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
28 October 1974, San Juan, Puerto Rico
9 January 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
28 June 1972, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
April 06, 2018
Like its protagonist, an efficient, sensitive and, in bursts, gruesomely violent punch to the gut.
April 06, 2018
You Were Never Really Here is hard going: easy to revere, fascinating to explore, but nagging in its grimness and, were it not for the rooted presence of Joaquin Phoenix, difficult to believe in.
April 05, 2018
Joaquin Phoenix is simply stupendous in a revenge thriller from the brilliant Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay that gets under your skin and makes it crawl. You won't know what hit you.
April 06, 2018
[Lynne] Ramsay's abstractions take their most productively aggressive and abrasive form here, throwing Joe's agonies at us like grenades.
April 09, 2018
Ramsay has concocted a lean, mean movie that skimps on specifics yet still packs a wallop. It's one of the most remarkable examples of less-is-more storytelling in recent memory.
April 09, 2018
If you're left a little in the fog as to what's happened and why, it's not a drawback: The execution is so assured, you simply go with the flow of striking, suggestive images.
April 06, 2018
A taut and almost unbearably intense 90-minutes, without an ounce of fat on it. Ramsay doesn't give you a second to breathe.
April 06, 2018
This is cinema in every sense, the kind of film that demands your full engagement with every moving part of film as a medium as it unfolds.
April 06, 2018
You Were Never Really Here is a breakdown shot in hyperdrive, lean, economic, utterly ruthless and made with fiery craftsmanship.
April 05, 2018
Style overwhelms substance; characters recede into a fog of endless setup accentuated with Johnny Greenwood's meaningfully strident score.
April 06, 2018
This psychological portrait cum modern pulp noir is not for the faint of heart, often playing like an homage to the last fifteen minutes of "Taxi Driver," but the film's horrific elements are cloaked in a state of grace, Ramsey's achievement remarkable.
April 05, 2018
With a jarring 11th-hour twist, [director Lynne] Ramsay leaves you pondering what menace lies beneath all those familiar sights and sounds.
