Joaquin Phoenix elevates grim, gory ‘You Were Never Really Here’

“You Were Never Really Here” is, in many ways, as harrowing of a film to experience as it is a poetic one. It is never an easy film to watch.
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“You Were Never Really Here” is, in many ways, as harrowing of a film to experience as it is a poetic one. It is never an easy film to watch.
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If only there were a better way to say “billowing curtains.” That phrase barely scratches the essence of the first image of Lynne Ramsay’s “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” which is a prelude to hell. The curtains, set to the sound of a sputtering lawn sprinkler, reveal an orgy
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People often ask me every February, “Are you excited for the Academy Awards?” It behooves me as a “film critic” (fuck off!) to offer a very emphatic, compulsory “Yes!” in response to this question, which pulls at my shirtsleeves all year like a nagging child. But each year, my enthusiasm
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