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Ratcatcher

Highly stylized despite its oppressive squalor, Ratcatcher reaches for the miserabilist sublime -- and attains it. Examining -- in a kind of trance of weary wonder -- both sides of every mirror, every window, every body, and every body of water, Ramsay's debut everywhere turns up vermin worthy of our pity, and of some kind of love, but she refuses them, and us, the solace of the moon. Instead she pulls us all under.