
Variety
Certain to arouse critical acclaim and smart-audience interest wherever it's shown.
Full reviewHard-hitting drama from director Steve McQueen (Hunger). Brandon's (Michael Fassbender) carefully cultivated sex addiction is interrupted by the unannounced arrival of his sister (Carey Mulligan).
"Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister (Carey Mulligan) moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control." (Official Synopsis)
LessCertain to arouse critical acclaim and smart-audience interest wherever it's shown.
Full reviewWith its focus on relentless sexual craving the movie is superficially bold, but lacks the bravery to go all the way.
Full reviewNot for the faint-hearted, prudish or impatient, Shame is as complex and ambiguous as its characters.
Full reviewIn a movie era remarkable for its reluctance to dramatize erotic intimacy, Shame merits praise for the dark energy of its sexual encounters.
Full reviewShame is a disturbing film that penetrates our minds and gets beneath our skins as we try to understand its characters.
Full reviewThis is a great act of filmmaking and acting. I don't believe I would be able to see it twice.
Full reviewThis is a psychologically claustrophobic film that strips its characters bare literally and figuratively, leaving them, and us, nowhere to hide.
Full reviewIts dramatic and stylistic prowess provides a cinematic jolt that is bracing to experience.
Full reviewThe biggest surprise in Shame is how distanced, passionless, and merely skin-deep the director's attention is - how little he cares about the subject of his own movie.
Full reviewBrave, beautifully acted and emotionally revealing — an early strong contender for the most provocative and compelling film of the year.
Full reviewShame is packed with scenes which are both immaculately composed and seething with meaning.
Full reviewShame is available to stream in Australia now on Stan and Google Play and Apple TV and Beamafilm and Prime Video Store.
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