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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) "...both shocking and beautiful." (Read the full review...) 568 words, 03/26/09
A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "The High Cost of Dignity: Recalling the Troubles in Stark Detail." (Read the full review...) 903 words, 03/20/09 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "TIME OF TROUBLES" (Read the full review...) 112 words, 03/20/09 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Trouble hits home like punch to the gut. 'Hunger' puts human face on Ulster violence." (Read the full review...) 579 words, 04/16/09 Kyle Smith, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "DECAY, THEN DEATH" (Read the full review...) 459 words, 03/20/09 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) " 'Hunger': Bobby Sands' story told with painstaking detail." (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) "The anguish of the punished, and the punishers." (Read the full review...) 976 words, 04/10/09 J. Hoberman, Village Voice/LA Weekly: OUTSTANDING "Body Politic. The Excruciating Details of Death-by-Starvation in 'Hunger.' " (Read the full review...) 794 words, 03/18/09 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: OUTSTANDING (cg) "It's a devastating, defiantly non-partisan film..." (Read the full review...) 108 words, 04/09/09
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) " 'Hunger': Powerful Pangs Of a Political Protest." (Read the full review...) 655 words, 04/03/09 Reyhan Harmanci, San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Artful, but brutal film tells story of prisoners." (Read the full review...) 379 words, 04/03/09 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "A visceral look at a prison hunger strike." (Read the full review...) 483 words, 04/17/09 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: OUTSTANDING (cg) "A look at hell and the hunger for freedom." (Read the full review...) 714 words, 03/27/09 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "A strike for integrity in 'Hunger.' " (Read the full review...) 533 words, 04/10/09 Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) " 'Hunger' delivers punch to the gut based on prisoner's last stand." (Read the full review...) 544 words, 04/10/09 John Petkovic, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: OUTSTANDING (cg) " 'Hunger' portrays Bobby Sands and IRA prisoners' protest." (Read the full review...) 393 words, 05/01/09 Marc Mohan, Portland Oregonian: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Pain and Poetry in 'Hunger.' " (Read the full review...) 156 words, 04/17/09 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "A cinematic gauntlet for the hardcore, 'Hunger' practically defies you to watch it." (Read the full review...) 351 words, 03/13/09
J. Hoberman, Village Voice/LA Weekly: OUTSTANDING "Body Politic. The Excruciating Details of Death-by-Starvation in 'Hunger.' " (Read the full review...) 794 words, 03/18/09 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "It's 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) "Steve McQueen cuts to the truth." (Read the full review...) 430 words, 04/02/09 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: OUTSTANDING (cg) "It's a devastating, defiantly non-partisan film..." (Read the full review...) 108 words, 04/09/09 Tricia Olszewski, Washington City Paper: EXCELLENT "Attention Starved. Two films mine the humor and darkness of indenture and deprivation." (Read the full review...) 531 words, 04/02/09
A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "The High Cost of Dignity: Recalling the Troubles in Stark Detail." (Read the full review...) 903 words, 03/20/09 David Denby, New Yorker: EXCELLENT "I was awed but not moved by 'Hunger.' " (Read the full review...) 575 words, 03/23/09
Leslie Felperin, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "McQueen really overeggs the pudding is 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 "Gruesome and cliched depiction of a terrorist on a hunger strike." (Read the full review...) 449 words, 05/16/08 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "The High Cost of Dignity: Recalling the Troubles in Stark Detail." (Read the full review...) 903 words, 03/20/09
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