You Were Never Really Here

A world imbued with both vulnerability and with trauma, the sometimes inexorable, sometimes surprising story is riveting and disturbing and moving.

A great character study.

You Were Never Really Here isn’t an entirely satisfying experience, and may benefit from multiple viewings, but it’s still a masterful exploration of the nasty ways repressed trauma can resurface, and how violence can become a means of excising the bruises of the past.

E. Oliver Whitney

ScreenCrush

Ramsay’s fourth feature operates on the viewer in much the same way. With a minimum of resources, she creates a primal atmosphere of dread, then assaults the viewer’s consciousness in a single, sharp blow.

Dana Stevens

Slate

Ramsay elevates the material way beyond the conventional by sheer filmmaking craft.

Allan Hunter

Screen International