while blatantly unfinished, it may be suited to remain in that form - fragmented and imprecise in much the same way as its baffled, alienated character
it is hard, harrowing, not-for-the-faint-of-heart stuff. But the immensity of Ramsay's film lies in the scalpel surgery of her image-making, distilling and triple-distilling the stuff she shot to make every second count
how Ramsay handles the final act is barely - and we mean barely - redeemed by Phoenix's powerhouse moment. Ramsay falters ultimately here but to watch Phoenix...on screen and under her direction makes You Were Never Really Here something of a must-see
by Tim Robey [Daily Telegraph ]
