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

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

| Feb 14, 2018

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

With little dialogue to assist her -- just the strains of that wonderfully organic music -- [Morton] still manages to suggest the internal struggle, and to slowly reveal a fierce toughness that flies in the face of conventional morality.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2003

Maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by letting you share her one-room world for a while.

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2003

Even if both films are about accidental sinners, Morvern Callar turns out to be a very different, and more difficult, film than Ratcatcher.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2003

As opaque as the movie is, it's redeemed by Ms. Morton's superb, disaffected performance.

| Original Score: B | Apr 10, 2003

With her broad, thinker's forehead, imp's crooked grin and large, deer-in-the-headlights eyes, Morton at first suggests hidden depths within Morvern. But as the film plays on, the character comes off as increasingly shallow and dull.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2003

This odd, poetic road movie, spiked by jolts of pop music, pretty much takes place in Morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actress, and to her inventive director, that the journey is such a mesmerizing one.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2003

Exceptionally moving.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 20, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

A mesmerizing cinematic poem from the first frame to the last.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 4, 2003

As Morvern, [Morton is] disconcertingly enigmatic, often bordering on catatonic. But she carries the movie effortlessly.

Full Review | Feb 21, 2003

Ramsay and Morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 31, 2003

Too often mistaking obscurity for complexity and moodiness for depth, director Lynn Ramsay squanders an intriguing premise and a layered performance by Samantha Morton.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jan 31, 2003

We watch Samantha Morton so closely, with such fascination, because she is able to embody a universe of wounded privacy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 31, 2003

Ramsay, as in Ratcatcher, remains a filmmaker with an acid viewpoint and a real gift for teasing chilly poetry out of lives and settings that might otherwise seem drab and sordid.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 30, 2003