You Were Never Really Here

An emotionally scarred Gulf War veteran turned brutal contract killer uncovers a sex-trafficking ring that touches the highest reaches of power in this “Taxi Driver for a new century” (The Times), fueled by an especially committed performance by Joaquin Phoenix and Lynne Ramsay’s remarkable framing of emotional trauma, urban loneliness, and masculine violence. “Perhaps better than any filmmaker of her generation, Ramsay understands and conveys the interior lives of broken people. Despite the obvious homage to Taxi Driver, this is a Ramsay film, rooted in the Glaswegian auteur’s feverish, kaleidoscopic style” (Leah Pickett, Chicago Reader). “Transformative and transfixing” (Globe and Mail).