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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a disturbingly avid re-creation of the last six weeks in the life and slow, self-imposed wasting of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands (Fassbender)..." (Read the full review...) 103 words, 03/20/09 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Is 'Hunger' trying to enlighten us about man's inhumanity to man, or merely startle us?... both shocking and beautiful.... easier to admire than it is to like." (Read the full review...) 580 words, 03/26/09
A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "The brutality in the film is pervasive and often stomach turningly graphic, but what is perhaps most unnerving is the tact, patience and care with which Mr. McQueen depicts its causes and effects." (Read the full review...) 903 words, 03/20/09 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...emotionally devastating drama that isn't for the squeamish.... the violence against prisoners and the effects of death by starvation are visceral and incredibly difficult to watch." (Read the full review...) 112 words, 03/20/09 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "If you do not hold a position on the Irish Republican cause, you will not find one here. 'Hunger' is not about the rights and wrongs of the British in Northern Ireland, but about inhumane prison conditions..." (Read the full review...) 579 words, 04/16/09 Kyle Smith, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "Regardless of politics, one must grant McQueen's substantial gifts, which bring to mind Paul Greengrass in another Northern Ireland film, 'Bloody Sunday.' " (Read the full review...) 459 words, 03/20/09 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "McQueen and cinematographer Sean Bobbitt seek out the perverse beauty amid excrement-stained prison walls and the vicious ballet, depicted partly in slow motion, as the worst of the riots begins." (Read the full review...) 495 words, 04/17/09 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: OUTSTANDING "It's rigorous, evocative, and, in spite of its grisly imagery, elegant. It's a triumph -- of masochistic literal-mindedness." (Read the full review...) 206 words, 03/23/09 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: OUTSTANDING (cg) "In politics no less than religion, the suffering body is the martyr's last and fullest testament. The body is his art, etched in blood and excrement..." (Read the full review...) 976 words, 04/10/09 J. Hoberman, Village Voice/LA Weekly: OUTSTANDING "...a superbly balanced piece of work, addressing the passion of Irish Republican martyr Bobby Sands, who starved himself to death in Belfast's Maze prison in 1981." (Read the full review...) 800 words, 03/18/09 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a devastating, defiantly non-partisan film..." (Read the full review...) 108 words, 04/09/09
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Steve McQueen, a Turner Prize-winning artist who has become a sensation on the museum circuit, has made a film as dazzling as it is unsettling." (Read the full review...) 655 words, 04/03/09 Reyhan Harmanci, San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Steve McQueen is a well-known visual artist turned feature film director who makes you wish more moviemakers went to art school." (Read the full review...) 379 words, 04/03/09 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Through McQueen's lens, what matters most is the human spirit, the human body, and what spirit and body are capable of." (Read the full review...) 483 words, 04/17/09 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a visually ravishing tour of hell and a meditation on freedom that at best is wordlessly profound and at worst interestingly obscure.... a work of electrifying images that cohere into a larger sense." (Read the full review...) 714 words, 03/27/09 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a probing, clinical, oddly beautiful examination of one man's decision to die, to face the moment that we all must, on his own terms." (Read the full review...) 533 words, 04/10/09 Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a harrowing yet unforgettably vivid account of the politically charged hunger strike by Northern Irish republican Bobby Sands and other prisoners in Belfast's infamous Maze Prison in 1981." (Read the full review...) 544 words, 04/10/09 John Petkovic, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "At times, I felt like an inmate while watching 'Hunger' -- there is no respite, nothing to look forward to, nothing to beat your chest about or 'believe' in. No escape. And yet you can't deny the power." (Read the full review...) 393 words, 05/01/09 Marc Mohan, Portland Oregonian: OUTSTANDING (cg) "An alternately harrowing and poetic take on the fatal 1982 hunger strike of Irish Republican Army prisoner Bobby Sands... one of the most impressive feature directing debuts in years." (Read the full review...) 156 words, 04/17/09 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "A cinematic gauntlet for the hardcore... practically defies you to watch it." (Read the full review...) 351 words, 03/13/09
J. Hoberman, Village Voice/LA Weekly: OUTSTANDING "...a superbly balanced piece of work, addressing the passion of Irish Republican martyr Bobby Sands, who starved himself to death in Belfast's Maze prison in 1981." (Read the full review...) 800 words, 03/18/09 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an artistic triumph that asks us to enter the H blocks of Northern Ireland's Maze prison, circa 1981..." (Read the full review...) 411 words, 03/20/09 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...evokes the fracturing of chronology in prison conditions, when time is measured in the growth of hair and the healing of wounds." (Read the full review...) 430 words, 04/02/09 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a devastating, defiantly non-partisan film..." (Read the full review...) 108 words, 04/09/09 Tricia Olszewski, Washington City Paper: EXCELLENT "...you don't need to understand the entirety of 'Hunger's' backstory to appreciate the filmmaking. Long, silent takes dominate, allowing the viewer to soak in the vicious atmosphere..." (Read the full review...) 531 words, 04/02/09
A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "The brutality in the film is pervasive and often stomach turningly graphic, but what is perhaps most unnerving is the tact, patience and care with which Mr. McQueen depicts its causes and effects." (Read the full review...) 903 words, 03/20/09 David Denby, New Yorker: GOOD "I was awed but not moved... McQueen's aestheticization of his suffering and death becomes borderline creepy." (Read the full review...) 575 words, 03/23/09
Leslie Felperin, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "McQueen really overeggs the pudding in the final reel, where (and this is no spoiler for anyone glancingly versed in Sands' story) the protagonist wastes away, the camera focusing intimately on his bedsores and emaciated frame." (Read the full review...) 899 words, 05/26/08 Ray Bennett, Hollywood Reporter: WEAK "Violent, bleak and depressing... the film adds nothing to the debate over broader issues involving such places as Guantanamo Bay and Abu Graib." (Read the full review...) 458 words, 05/16/08 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "The brutality in the film is pervasive and often stomach turningly graphic, but what is perhaps most unnerving is the tact, patience and care with which Mr. McQueen depicts its causes and effects." (Read the full review...) 903 words, 03/20/09
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