#108 - You Were Never Really Here (2017)

"A merciless and relentless gut punch of a cinematic experience. Ultra claustrophobic scenes are interspersed with wonderfully brilliant and often serene, stark framing that perfectly contrasts the state of the protagonist's mind against the banal bustle of the ordinary world. 

Phoenix is on terrifyingly terrific form, more often than not telling us everything we need to know with a squint of the eye or slope of the shoulder, his silence and reactions to the plot just as revealing and more fluid and believable than any exposition dump. 

It quickly becomes a hammer like strike of rising tension, an unrelenting force of story telling coupled with perfectly executed directing"


- 8.5/10 (maybe a 9 after further consideration - will update soon)