You Were Never Really Here – 1 star
Arty, messy, self-indulgent and obtuse, a very bad movie. Joaquin Phoenix plays a violent loner with a side line finding missing children and beating their abductors with a ball peen hammer. He himself is plagued by childhood trauma, trauma from the Iraq war, and even more trauma from his time as a border agent? I don’t know. It’s all in flashback and unnecessarily muddled.
He catches the wrong case, saving a pre-teen girl from a sex ring who just happens to be the favorite sexual partner of the governor (Allesandro Nivola, who has zero lines). That’s right, the governor of the state of New York is a pedophile, and at his disposal are numerous police officers and security men who will murder on his behalf so he can continue his disgusting practice. Hell, Trump can’t even get people to shut up about cadging Hillary’s emails.
But I digress.
Really dumb, with the primary feature of creating lethargy and numbness in the viewer.
But what do I know? It got 89% from rottentomatoes.com. Currently on Amazon.
filmvetter 
Thank you. In my opinion this service of Filmvetter– waving us off the terrible ones– is at least equal to recommending the good ones. Amazon keeps serving this up to me as a recommendation, and I had added it to the list on the basis of the Rotten Tomatoes score. Off the list it goes.