78
Metascore
24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonAs Morvern, Morton is disconcertingly enigmatic, often bordering on catatonic. But she carries the movie effortlessly. And even though we're on the outside looking in, she carries us along, too.
- 90Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasRamsay reaches out boldly with a film that is as unsettling as it is minimalist.
- 80L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorA strange and beautiful film.
- 78Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAustin ChronicleKimberley JonesRamsay is experimental, unconventional, and forever reaching at the gorgeousness in grief and despair. Her film moves slow as molasses, slow as paint drying -– and all the better to see the colors and the complexities.
- 75Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittMorton acts up a storm, and Ramsay continues her rise as England's hottest young female filmmaker.
- 75Portland OregonianMarc MohanPortland OregonianMarc MohanIn Morvern Callar, the subject matter may be morbid and unappealing, but the director handles it with a visual poetry and an eye for hidden beauty that marks a filmmaker of the first order.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenWith little dialogue to assist her -- just the strains of that wonderfully organic music -- she still manages to suggest the internal struggle, and to slowly reveal a fierce toughness that flies in the face of conventional morality.
- 70Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanMore engrossing than convincing.
- 30Chicago ReaderChicago ReaderFans of director Lynne Ramsay's first movie, the bleak Ratcatcher won't be surprised that this little existential exercise makes The Stranger look like a funwagon.