A mesmerizing character portrait with just a dash of morbid wit. 90% visual, never boring, unpredictable, just plain awesome sensory filmmaking. It would be easy to screw this up, but Ramsay knows what she is doing. I wish there were a subtitle feature on the DVD; the Scottish accents are so thick I had no idea what they were saying. It really sounded like a foreign language. Luckily, this movie really isn’t about dialogue — the script was probably 35 pages. Also, lots of busty women in their underwear, to which I say, “huzzah!”
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Jordan Hoffman is a New York-based writer and film critic working for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Thrillist, Times of Israel, NY Daily News and elsewhere.
He is the host of ENGAGE: The Official Star Trek Podcast, a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and challenges you to a game of backgammon.