A wonderfully mordant and melancholic Holiday film.

| Feb 13, 2024

It may play fast and loose with trauma, occasionally striving to be too hip for its own good, but it’s nevertheless a compelling portrait of one young woman’s attempt to find catharsis in the face of grief.

| Aug 11, 2023

Simply the latest chapter in what promises to be a most strange, idiosyncratic, and beautiful body of work.

| Original Score: A | Sep 19, 2022

Ramsay has a photographers knack for capturing the blush and blur of glimpse in an intoxicated instant, constructing an emotional subjectivity, a shimmering use of focus and focal lengths that disorient our perceptions at just the right moment.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 5, 2022

Ramsay and Morton trust the audience enough to resist softening up or even explaining their central character, resulting in a difficult yet ultimately rewarding piece.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2021

Ultimately provides little resolution for our tough heroine, and the way the film visualizes this discontent continues to haunt at least one viewer.

| Jan 7, 2021

Morvern Callar isn't just cool, it's downright arctic: Ramsay takes her alienation neat with rarely a chaser of glam.

| Mar 16, 2020

The narration submits to the sensitised state that Morvern retreats into as she embarks on what could loosely be described as a personal epiphany: reinventing herself abroad.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2018

"Morvern Callar" is beautiful, crushing, and nihilistic as hell. Samantha Morton + Lynne Ramsay = heaven and I want them to work on another project together.

| Oct 24, 2018

While [Lynne] Ramsay's sensibility is entirely her own, it approaches the rawness of work by Nan Goldin or Richard Billingham.

| Feb 14, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Samantha Morton's performance recalls Emily Watson's work in Breaking the Waves -- you can't take your eyes off of her.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 15, 2005

Morvern Callar is assured and confidently-made, even as the emotions of the title character seem brittle and crystalline.

| Mar 3, 2004

El resultado ha encontrado admiradores y detractores; sin llegar a ninguno de los dos extremos, yo tengo la impresión de que vi una buena película pero no me di cuenta.

| Nov 1, 2003

Shocking and exhilarating.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 24, 2003

Morton finds a wealth of nuance in anomie and neurasthenia.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2003

A mesmerizing conundrum of a suspended life in perpetual motion.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jul 16, 2003

Ramsay is showing us one very particular type of person, a live-for-the-moment young woman who is fascinated by ugliness and pain and who -- like the poet, Terence -- believes nothing human is alien to her.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2003

A character study of such acuity that you'll find yourself thinking about it for days afterward.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 30, 2003