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83
Viewer score based on 36 votes.

Critic Score

72
Critics' score based on 39 reviews.
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sooooooooo ****

June 04,2012
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disturbing film, manages to bring many different emotions in the same film, you get off, angry, sad, happy, all thanks to a memorable performance... sbender. The only downside is the exaggeration in showing the parts below the main actor. Full Review

May 01,2012
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The look, the acting and feel to the movie are all excellent. But the story is very unsatisfying. Watching someone disintegrate isn't very... ning or enlightening when any type of reasoning isn't offered. Full Review

January 27,2012
mikesmutt

Great acting.... Sad scenario in some ways.... Cary Mulligan was great.... A must see.

January 24,2012
karynparis

It's a shame to waste your money on this film.

January 23,2012
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Critic Reviews

This is a great act of filmmaking and acting. I don't believe I would be able to see it twice.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

A mesmerizing companion piece to his 2008 debut, "Hunger," this more approachable but equally uncompromising drama likewise fixes its gaze on the uses and abuses of the human body, as Michael Fassbender again strips himself down, in every way an actor can, for McQueen's rigorous but humane interrogation.Full Review

Justin Chang
Variety

Shame has a lolling pace and stunning visual clarity. Structurally, it's close to perfect - its precision echoed in the Glenn Gould piano recordings of Bach keyboard works that Brandon listens to obsessively.Full Review

Amy Biancolli
San Francisco Chronicle

Driven by a brilliant, ferocious performance by Michael Fassbender, Shame is a real walk on the wild side, a scorching look at a case of sexual addiction that's as all-encompassing as a craving for drugs.Full Review

Todd McCarthy
The Hollywood Reporter

It's first and foremost a visual and sonic symphony, and a Dante-esque journey through a New York nightworld where words are mostly useless or worse.Full Review

Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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