One of the greatest visual exercises I’ve watched in a looong time. So so so immersive, with just some absolutely jaw dropping visuals and landscapes. When our protagonist encountered like the fourth whimsical character of the movie, I knew this was going to be Alice in Wonderland coded up the wazoo. It’s essentially that scene from A New Hope where C-3PO and R2 D2 explore Tatooine but just stretched out into a feature length film. A man exploring hell. Everything’s…

Hypnagogic wandering in the silver forest. As a murky moonlight visual experiment, it succeeds. Moments where shadows apparate out of the digital noise and where bright light blinds through the dark - a spectacular melting man in particular - conjure something like old magic. The proper ratio of narrative vs non-narrative is a difficult alchemy in a tone piece and I don’t envy the filmmakers in cutting this together, but splitting the difference didn’t swing for me. I would’ve rather…

After this the fourth and final installment in the Lynne Ramsay retrospective I am so excited to see her latest film. (I'm satisfied that We Need To Talk About Kevin was a blip).

You Were Never Really Here is very grim but it's highly original and weirdly life-affirming. Joe the mercenary is severely damaged by his past and disappointed by his previous life in law enforcement. He has completely lost faith in institutions, with good reason, yet remains driven to…