YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

Cert 15

Digital and disc Monday Nasty, nihilistic and nightmarish, this dark, harrowing and brutal thriller sees three-time Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix as a ponytailed anti-hero searching for the missing teenage daughter of a US senator.

With the war veteran driving through a landscape of politicians, paedophiles and prostitution, Glaswegian director Lynne Ramsay delivers us a stripped-down and updated riff on Martin Scorsese’s 1976 classic, Taxi Driver.

An anxiety-driven and jittery experience.