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Hunger (2008)
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Reviews Counted:105
Fresh:94
Rotten:11
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: Unflinching, uncompromising, vivid and vital. Steve McQueen’s challenging debut is not for the faint hearted, but still a richly rewarding retelling of troubled times.
Theatrical Release:Dec 5, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Renowned English video artist Steve McQueen's feature film debut, HUNGER, is a cinematic punch to the gut. McQueen brings a visceral intensity to his retelling of the hunger strike instigated by... [More]
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Brian Milligan
Director: Steve McQueen
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Reviews for Hunger
No struggle is ever as simple as good versus evil: In this jail, it's the stubborn, vengeful and frightened versus the vengeful, frightened and stubborn.
12/04/08
As prison-movie machismo, Walter Hill’s Undisputed is better; as visual art, Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments is superior.
03/18/09
McQueen has taken the raw materials of filmmaking and committed an act of great art.
04/02/09
Given... the prevailing 'us vs. them' anti-opposition mentality, it's reassuring to see a movie like Hunger that assumes the perspective of the stalwart revolutionary.
10/02/08
No sides are taken: each man’s arguments are given due weight and it’s clear why, despite mutual respect, there’s a gulf between them.
10/30/08
Whatever your opinion, there is no denying McQueen packs more powerful imagery into his feature-length debut than most directors manage in a lifetime.
10/31/08
With calm, deliberate attention -- an approach at once compassionate and dispassionate -- Hunger explores physical extremity and political extremism.
03/20/09
Top CriticTurner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen makes an impressive feature debut.
10/18/08
Despite the filth, the violence and the desolation, McQueen's portrait is a thing of brutal beauty in terms of its composition.
09/29/08
A feast of cinema, albeit harrowing and confronting
10/31/08
A mesmerizing 96 minutes of cinema, one of the truly extraordinary filmmaking debuts of recent years.
03/20/09
Top CriticA harrowing yet lyrical account of the fatal hunger strike of Irish Republican Army prisoner Bobby Sands in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland, in 1981.
03/18/09
Top CriticHeartbreaking, poignant, haunting and captivating from start to finish.
03/20/09
Hunger is an intense movie-going experience, one that will leave you both drained and uplifted.
04/06/09
In a minimalist way which uses visuals to explain the deepest ideological divides and a single, 17 minute take to clarify all motives, McQueen condenses four decades of fighting into a single, epic overture.
12/06/08
That a film this masterful is the product of a first-time filmmaker is astonishing. The harrowing, contemplative Hunger is, without question, one of the gutsiest, most self-assured initial films ever made.
03/19/09
The contrast of procedural English police maneuvers with the feral panic of the Republican prisoners is riveting to witness, colored fascinatingly by McQueen's unspoken moments of reflection as both sides process the daily blasts of violence.
03/19/09
Steve McQueen's Hunger is a daring, brutal, vital piece of filmmaking.
04/21/09
So effectively depicts a special kind of hell that it makes you root for those poor sons-of-bitches in the prison regardless of what they may have done to earn their place there.
03/19/09
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