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By Jon A (725) on 30 Jun 2012

Another look at poverty in the UK, this time set in 1970s Glasgow. Depressing, but also beautiful at times…

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By Brandon B (918) on 11 May 2012

Didn't understand a word of it and was bored throughout…

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By Jesse B (855) on 22 Mar 2012

Gorgeously composed, but wallows in misery with no real resolution…

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By Arum Padma O (136) on 04 Feb 2012

It's beautiful, sorrow and depressing…

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By Graeme R (30) on 29 Sep 2011

A gritty, realistic, sort of depressing movie, but if you like those kinds of dramas, it's really good. I think it was a good movie…

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By John A (1,813) on 16 Aug 2011

Bleak and dreary, yet somehow, likely through the use of children, Ramsey elicits compassion for and finds beauty in the people that populate…

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By Lady D (826) on 04 Jul 2011

This is a film that has always been highly recommended to me and whilst I believe this to be a film that has portrayed a gritty Drama, with…

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By Smriti J (41) on 25 May 2011

A subtle, gritty, and lyrical debut from Lynne Ramsay…

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By Ricardo O (219) on 15 May 2011

A superb Scottish film, and an excellent first feature from director Lynne Ramsay…

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By Spencer S (1,155) on 15 May 2011

In the garbage strewn and rat infested streets of 70's Glasglow, there lies the rudimentary cinematic climax: that of poverty…

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By David S (4,459) on 16 Apr 2011

Lynne Ramsay is one of the two or three best directors in recent years…

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By Ally C (123) on 13 Apr 2011

Ratcatcher, Lynne Ramsays film about a Glasgow tenement the 1973 Glasgow dustmen strike must stand up as one of the finest British Films ever…

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By Keith P (210) on 23 Feb 2011

Beautifully bleak film with a wonderful cast of naturals, including one of my current favorites, Tommy Flanagan…

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By Cassandra M (558) on 13 Apr 2010

A small boy learns a lot in this film. His best friend drowns before his eyes in a canal in a poor town that he lives in…

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By Anne F (623) on 28 Mar 2010

Desperately sad tale of a young boy in Glasgow, surrounded by squalor and unloved…

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By Orpheus A (13) on 26 Oct 2009

A child's perspective film can only be worthwhile if you're not given the visual attribute of limited activity…

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By Daniel R (1,021) on 07 Oct 2009

What is this, my sixth viewing? amazing, again. as are her three short films accompanying the criterion edition…

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By Wut S (105) on 07 Oct 2009

Extraordinarily evocative. The backdrop of Glasglow garbage strike is unique, both stunningly dismal and meaningful…

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By Chris W (2,796) on 03 Oct 2009

The whole time I was watching this, I kept thinking of Mouchette…

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By Graham M (560) on 24 Sep 2009

Casting, directing, cinematography, scripting... Ratcatcher is firing on all cylinders…

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