You Were Never Really Here (2018)

Joaquin Phoenix grew up in an abusive household, saw some shit in the war, and is -- as a result -- pretty messed up. He's kind of like a fat Joker. Nowadays, he's a hired gun and his latest job is to find the young daughter of a senator who is being held as an underage sex worker.

There are a lot of flashbacks and dreamlike sequences and very little dialogue. Too much style on top of a pretty ugly story makes for a movie that's not really worth anyone's time. Except for one tiny bit that will probably stick with me: when one of the bad guys is dying a slow bleeding-out death, he reaches out to grasp his killer's hand. This human need for comfort felt so out of place in a movie that didn't seem to have a grip on how real people behave.

D