| First Look International | Release Date: October 13, 2000 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Critic Reviews
Fresh, original, and arresting.
Has its moments, but overall the effect is uneven.
A grim, poetic, heart-wrenchingly fine ode to the lost children of Glasgow's forgotten class.
One of the most remarkable English-language feature debuts of recent years.
A brilliant film by Lynne Ramsay.
The bleakness of the material ought to make Ratcatcher a depressing experience, yet Ramsay's power as an image-crafter transforms this grim universe.
Ramsay's child actors are nonprofessionals who can only express what they feel — which gives her film an unusual degree of emotional authenticity.
A sense of claustrophobia emerges, increases and colonizes the film.
Easily the best directorial debut of the year, and possibly the most mature and haunting film to ever come out of Scotland, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher is a throat-catching masterpiece of lyricism, observation, and stone-cold realism.
Ramsay has a gifted eye—the opening shot, of a boy twisting himself in a lacy curtain, is a stunner—and she establishes an undeniably vivid sense of place, yet there is a gravitation toward the tragic and repugnant that goes beyond description and toward a place of awed fascination.
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