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 "When the plot kicks in, the film loses credibility."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "Ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics, delivering a series of abrasive, stylized sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer's memory."
-- Chris Wiegand, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"It's about individual moments of mood, and an aimlessness that's actually sort of amazing."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"Strange and beautiful film."
-- Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY
"That old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in Morvern Callar."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Few films this year have been as resolute in their emotional nakedness."
-- Chuck Rudolph, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Morton is, as usual, brilliant."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"Morton is a great actress portraying a complex character, but Morvern Callar grows less compelling the farther it meanders from its shocking start."
-- Jeffrey Overstreet, LOOKING CLOSER
"turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film's characters"
-- John A. Nesbit, CULTUREDOSE.NET
"Credit director Ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic."
-- Eric Monder, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"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."
-- Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES
"Morton uses her face and her body language to bring us Morvern's soul, even though the character is almost completely deadpan."
-- Andy Klein, DALLAS OBSERVER
"Among the year's most intriguing explorations of alientation."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
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"A portrait of alienation so perfect, it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Morvern rocks."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"I suspect that you'll be as bored watching Morvern Callar as the characters are in it. If you go, pack your knitting needles."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"There was time on that second round to see the subtleties of Ramsay's portrait of grief."
-- Mary F. Pols, CONTRA COSTA TIMES
"Recalls quiet freak-outs like L'Avventura and Repulsion."
-- Christopher Null, FILMCRITIC.COM
"[Ramsay] visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art, music and metaphor."
-- Paula Nechak, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Oddly compelling."
-- Marc Mohan, OREGONIAN
"Fails in making this character understandable, in getting under her skin, in exploring motivation...Well before the end, the film grows as dull as its characters, about whose fate it is hard to care."
-- Arthur Lazere, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"A mesmerizing cinematic poem from the first frame to the last."
-- Glenn Kenny, PREMIERE MAGAZINE
"Ramsay is clearly extraordinarily talented, and based on three short films and two features, here's betting her third feature will be something to behold."
-- G. Allen Johnson, FILM THREAT
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FRESH 90%
Avg. Rating: 7.3/10 |
"A work of astonishing delicacy and force."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"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."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Ramsay and Morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Morvern Callar confirms Lynne Ramsay as an important, original talent in international cinema."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Flashy, pretentious and as impenetrable as Morvern's thick, working-class Scottish accent."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"Exceptionally moving."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"A dark, quirky road movie that constantly defies expectation."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by letting you share her one-room world for a while."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"Morton deserves an Oscar nomination."
-- V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST
"The wonderfully lush Morvern Callar is pure punk existentialism, and Ms. Ramsay and her co-writer, Liana Dognini, have dramatized the Alan Warner novel, which itself felt like an answer to Irvine Welsh's book Trainspotting."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
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"An amazing audio-visual experience."
-- Darrin Keene, FILM THREAT
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