Overview
Genre :
DramaRelease Date :
December 02, 2011 (Limited)MPAA Rating :
NC-17Director :
Steve McQueenStarring :
Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie, Hannah Ware, Lucy Walters, Elizabeth Masucci, Charisse Bellante
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics 
Readers Be the 1st!
“..viewers will be left as unsatisfied..”
by Anton Bitel [Eye for Film]
“..though the sex scenes aren't as graphic as you might expect, not that it matters - but that it dares to confront social taboos with an admirable integrity, not turning incestual as one expected it might..”
by Shaun Munro [What Culture]
“..there's enough graphic sexuality and nudity..”
by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News]
Review rate : C-
“..the story inches toward its hackneyed climax of glaringly foreshadowed melodrama it collapses like a weakened erection under a heavy blanket..”
“..the story inches toward its hackneyed climax of glaringly foreshadowed melodrama it collapses like a weakened erection under a heavy blanket..”
by Cole Smithey [ColeSmithey.com]
“..the movie is superficially bold, but lacks the bravery to go all the way..”
by Claudia Puig [USA Today]
Review rate : A-
“..the more time you've had to sit and ponder Shame, the more deeply it will impress you, weaving itself into your consciousness..”
“..the more time you've had to sit and ponder Shame, the more deeply it will impress you, weaving itself into your consciousness..”
by Laremy Legel [Film.com]
“..much of the film is banal or pretentious, or both-vacuous vignettes about emptiness..”
by Joe Morgenstern [Wall Street Journal]
“..many of the longer dialogue scenes are done in one shot, which is impressive enough..”
by Edward Douglas [ComingSoon.net]
“..luxuriously appointed but impersonal, borderline rancid world in which the characters' noxious traits can stew and fester..”
by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter]
“..isn't an easy film to sit through, to describe or to figure out, but it's riveting, spectacular, passionate cinema..”
by Andrew O'Hehir [Salon.com]
“..has everything in place to be a really interesting movie..”
by Dana Stevens [Slate]
“..difficult to watch but even harder to turn away from..”
by Kenneth Turan [Los Angeles Times]
“..creating an international audience largely desensitised to violence and horror but physically shocked by the sight of an adult male's penis..”
by Charlie Lyne [Ultra Culture]
“..articulates a shallow, even mundane, understanding of an uninteresting man's sex addiction-in a vibrant city rendered dull and anonymous..”
by Ed Gonzalez [Slant Magazine]
“..anything but romantic, as we shall soon witness in the most explicitly physical terms of empty carnality..”
by Peter Howell [Toronto Star]
“..a carefully crafted curiosity that gives a grateful audience the opportunity to get involved, rather than merely observe..”
by Ed Whitfield [The Ooh Tray]
