(Catchup Week) YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

In hands other than Lynne Ramsay’s, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE would have been just another diversionary conspiracy thriller: instead, she takes the best of TAXI DRIVER and OLDBOY (down to the hammer) and filters it through her own uncompromising vision of its source material to give us a psychological menagerie of brutality and pain that speaks greater volumes in its sparse, relentless ninety minutes than most of our beloved streaming engorgements can say in 13 hours. A testament to the power of brevity.

Also, Johnny Greenwood’s score is superb: Alban Berg meets John Carpenter.