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Average Rating:7.6/10
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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Midway through the movie there's an epic 24-minute scene...in the claustrophobic cell block the protesters have already internalized their cause so deeply that the world of words seems distant and inconsequential.
Top CriticIt's a strength of this carefully composed, almost obsessively controlled picture that it has no interest in the conventional biographical focus on a subject.
Top CriticHunger is daunting and powerful work.
Top CriticHunger is not about the rights and wrongs of the British in Northern Ireland, but about inhumane prison conditions, the steeled determination of IRA members like Bobby Sands, and a rock and a hard place.
Top CriticHunger -- the disturbing, provocative, brilliant feature debut from British director Steve McQueen -- does for modern film what Caravaggio did to Renaissance painting.
Top CriticRelying on images more than words, it's a plea for humanity in times of insanity.
Top CriticThis is strong stuff, a tour of hell on Earth presented in scenes of unbearable tension and pulse-spiking violence. Hunger ends as something else, though, in a vision of transcendence and grace.
Top CriticIt's horrific. But Hunger displays uncommon intelligence and visual panache, transcending the goal of making the situation seem real. It feels more than real. It's art.
Top CriticMcQueen has taken the raw materials of filmmaking and committed an act of great art.
Top CriticA visually ravishing tour of hell and a meditation on freedom that at best is wordlessly profound and at worst interestingly obscure.
Top CriticIn the end, even though I recognized the need to be reminded of Guantánamo and of crimes carried out there, I was awed but not moved by Hunger.
Top CriticIt’s rigorous, evocative, and, in spite of its grisly imagery, elegant. It’s a triumph -- of masochistic literal-mindedness.
Top CriticA mesmerizing 96 minutes of cinema, one of the truly extraordinary filmmaking debuts of recent years.
Top CriticRegardless of politics, one must grant McQueen's substantial gifts, which bring to mind Paul Greengrass in another Northern Ireland film, Bloody Sunday.
Top CriticWith calm, deliberate attention -- an approach at once compassionate and dispassionate -- Hunger explores physical extremity and political extremism.
Top CriticShockingly immediate and philosophically reflective, Hunger is an indelibly moving tribute to what makes us human.
Top CriticYoung British writer-director Steve McQueen's directorial debut is an emotionally devastating drama that isn't for the squeamish.
Top CriticFor your art-house pleasure and discomfort, here's one of the most talked-about film-festival triumphs of 2008, a disturbingly avid re-creation of the last six weeks in the life and slow, self-imposed wasting of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands.
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.
Top CriticI've seen Hunger three times, and with each screening, the spectacle of violence, suffering, and pain becomes more awful and more awe-inspiring.
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