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Morvern Callar (2002) Rank 3 Reviews

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Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.32 out of 4 stars for Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle Post-Intelligencer
There are two reasons Ramsay succeeds with a story that might at best be called morbid: She visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art, music and metaphor -- and she has the perfect actress to ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Let's start with the obvious question: Morvern Callar is the name of a character. The name of a girl, actually. And not in a Lord of the Rings movie. No, Morvern Callar is a modern-day psychodrama, starring Samantha Morton (never known for picking traditi ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for TV Guide (Ken Fox)TV Guide (Ken Fox)
Ramsay's second feature is an extraordinary adaptation of fellow-Scot Alan Warner's acclaimed novel. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at TV Guide (Ken Fox)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Arizona Republic (Richard Nilsen)Arizona Republic (Richard Nilsen)
Morton finds a wealth of nuance in anomie and neurasthenia. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Arizona Republic (Richard Nilsen)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for The New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)The New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
This minimalist film is slightly hobbled by its minimal plot; it's the crucial difference between a movie with moments of greatness and a great movie. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at The New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for The Onion (A.V. Club) (Scott Tobias)The Onion (A.V. Club) (Scott Tobias)
Morvern Callar not only attempts to reveal an interior life, usually the province of novels, but also focuses on the interior life of a woman who refuses to open up to anyone. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at The Onion (A.V. Club) (Scott Tobias)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
An extraordinary adaptation of fellow-Scot Alan Warner's acclaimed novel. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Hollywood Bitchslap (Thom Fowler)Hollywood Bitchslap (Thom Fowler)
Aesthetically interesting drawn-out existential character study ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Hollywood Bitchslap (Thom Fowler)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Dallas Observer (Andy Klein)Dallas Observer (Andy Klein)
One of the glories of the film is that Ramsay keeps us rigorously to Morvern's point of view without ever being explicit about what's going on in her head. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Dallas Observer (Andy Klein)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Toronto Star (Geoff Pevere)Toronto Star (Geoff Pevere)
Maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by letting you share her one-room world for a while. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Toronto Star (Geoff Pevere)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Film Threat (Darrin Keene)Film Threat (Darrin Keene)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
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 . ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.12 out of 4 stars for Austin Chronicle (Kimberley Jones)Austin Chronicle (Kimberley Jones)
Ramsay is experimental, unconventional, and forever reaching at the gorgeousness in grief and despair. Her film moves slow as molasses, slow as paint drying -– and all the better to see the colors and the complexities. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Austin Chronicle (Kimberley Jones)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Ramsay and Morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Portland Oregonian (Marc Mohan)Portland Oregonian (Marc Mohan)
In Morvern Callar, the subject matter may be morbid and unappealing, but the director handles it with a visual poetry and an eye for hidden beauty that marks a filmmaker of the first order. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Portland Oregonian (Marc Mohan)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Philadelphia Inquirer (Carrie Rickey)Philadelphia Inquirer (Carrie Rickey)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)
It's a smartly surreal little movie, and again shows why, whenever there's a role that calls for an actress who can speak volumes without much dialogue (as in "Minority Report" and "Sweet and Lowdown"), the call goes out to Morton. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
Ramsay is showing us one very particular type of person, a live-for-the-moment young woman who is fascinated by ugliness and pain and who -- like the poet, Terence -- believes nothing human is alien to her. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
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. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
A film about youthful confusion made without a moment of artistic immaturity or indecision. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Boston Globe (Ty Burr)Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Even if both films are about accidental sinners, Morvern Callar turns out to be a very different, and more difficult, film than Ratcatcher . ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Three Imaginary Girls review (embracey)Three Imaginary Girls review (embracey)
On a fairly recent two-day Scotland jaunt (one leg of a larger UK excursion) I had the pleasure of visiting Glasgow for the first time. I marveled at Mackintosh architecture, enjoyed strong-ass pub ale, lingered in the effervescent city centre, ate ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Three Imaginary Girls review (embracey)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)
That old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in Morvern Callar . ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Contra Costa Times (Mary F. Pols)Contra Costa Times (Mary F. Pols)
There was time on that second round to see the subtleties of Ramsay's portrait of grief. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Contra Costa Times (Mary F. Pols)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Among the year's most intriguing explorations of alientation. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Despite grim doings involving sexual hysteria and chopped-up body parts (don't ask), Ramsay and Morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Rick Groen)The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Rick Groen)
With little dialogue to assist her -- just the strains of that wonderfully organic music -- she still manages to suggest the internal struggle, and to slowly reveal a fierce toughness that flies in the face of conventional morality. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Rick Groen)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
With all due respect to Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep, the best actress of 2002 was Samantha Morton. Morton took on a role in Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" - as a clairvoyant who can see murders before they happen - which didn't require her ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
What gives the movie real flesh and fantasy is the actress playing this part, the incandescent Morton. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for VideoVista VideoVista
Her face bathed fitfully in the flashing Christmas tree lights, a close up of a young woman caresses what appears to be her sleeping lover. A longer shot reveals that he is lying face down in a doorway of the flat's kitchen, not far from a smear of blood. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at VideoVista
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)
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. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Cinema 2000 (João Lopes)Cinema 2000 (João Lopes)
Trata-se da adaptação de um romance de Alan Warner, em que descobrimos uma jovem mulher, Morvern Callar (Samantha Morton), de 21 anos, que vive numa remota cidade portuária na Escócia, sem grandes perspectivas de futuro como trabalhadora num ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Cinema 2000 (João Lopes)
Morvern Callar (2002) scores a combined 2.68 out of 4 stars for Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
A movie's refusal to judge bad behavior can be a subtle way of trumping the audience -- a passive-aggressive form of one-upmanship. ...read the complete Morvern Callar movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
 
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