Film: Compelling thriller that truly terrifies

The Lodgers isn’t particularly frightening, but as a story of people trying to escape their ancestry, it is genuinely haunting

Joaquin Phoenix and Ekaterina Samsonov in You Were Never Really Here

Cinema

You Were Never Really Here: Directed by Lynne Ramsay, Nationwide, 18,Rating:*****

The Lodgers: Directed by Brian O’Malley, Nationwide, 15A,Rating:***

Lynne Ramsay’s first film since 2011’s We Need to Talk About Kevin is a hitman thriller more concerned with the man than the hit.You Were Never Really Here plays around with the conventions of the crime genre, filtering our expectations of heroism through the hallucinatory prism of a damaged man’s worldview. Tightly wound ...