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You Were Never Really Here

A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

"Ramsays filmmaking is, as always, fluid and impressionistic. Whats new here is the steep sense of genre awareness. Everybody knows this is a film about a man with a hero complex, trying to survive a world that hates women. Ramsay, a director of immense imagination and offbeat taste, forces you to wonder whether that complex is worth it." - K. Austin Collins, Vanity Fair

"From this character description, it seems like an unusually cliched choice for Ramsay. However, while Ramsays subject choice may seem conventional, You Were Never Really Here is anything but, and the film is definitively hers another installment in a filmic career concerned with representing the repercussions of violence." - Katie Goh, Another Gaze

"A demanding film, but its not a reckless one. To watch it is to see a rigorous and intensely creative filmmaker at work. No wonder Ramsays name doesnt make it onto a lot of female-director lists. Her work defies the concept of cheerleading, or of special pleading. Shes a list unto herself." - Time

"There isnt a boringly composed frame in this movie. . . . Phoenix may be the films star, but its his director whos giving a truly virtuoso performance. " - The Ringer

"The entire film feels like an experiment in condensation, as though Ramsay is testing the limits of how little she can give us and still evoke so much. It makes the things she excludes as present as the things she shows us, and sometimes the things she shows us are bizarrely brilliant flourishes." - The Playlist