Review of You Were Never Really Here (2017) by Ann Hornaday for Washington Post — 10 Apr 2018
As beautiful and compelling as Ramsay’s filmmaking and Phoenix’s central performance are, the degree to which viewers will buy You Were Never Really Here depends on the degree to which they accept yet another display of febrile vigilante brutality motivated by sexual violence perpetrated against young girls.
One person’s trope, after all, is another’s shopworn cliche.
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This review of You Were Never Really Here (2017) was written by Ann Hornaday and published by Washington Post on 10 Apr 2018.
You Were Never Really Here has generally received positive reviews.
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