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Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: McQueen has taken the raw materials of filmmaking and committed an act of great art. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: With calm, deliberate attention -- an approach at once compassionate and dispassionate -- Hunger explores physical extremity and political extremism. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: It's rigorous, evocative, and, in spite of its grisly imagery, elegant. It's a triumph -- of masochistic literal-mindedness. Read more
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Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Hunger is an upsetting, vivid film about going to the ultimate extreme in defense of one's beliefs. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: Hunger may be criticized for being willfully arty, or for reducing a complex political situation to a broadly allegorical vision of martyrdom, but it's never less than visually stunning. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A visually ravishing tour of hell and a meditation on freedom that at best is wordlessly profound and at worst interestingly obscure. Read more
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: [The] unflinching camera, deliberate pacing and maddeningly long takes (including a 10-minute, single-shot conversation that, while hypnotic, belongs on stage) just amplify the story's innate harshness and test audience endurance levels. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It's a strength of this carefully composed, almost obsessively controlled picture that it has no interest in the conventional biographical focus on a subject. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: In the end, it is not Bobby Sands but Michael Fassbender we are looking at, and this realization takes us out of the movie just as surely as (for me) De Niro's fattening up did in Raging Bull. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: For 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. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: 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. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: The farther I got from the queasy beauty of McQueen's movie, the more I hated it. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: In the end, even though I recognized the need to be reminded of Guantanamo and of crimes carried out there, I was awed but not moved by Hunger. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Young British writer-director Steve McQueen's directorial debut is an emotionally devastating drama that isn't for the squeamish. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Regardless of politics, one must grant McQueen's substantial gifts, which bring to mind Paul Greengrass in another Northern Ireland film, Bloody Sunday. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: A harrowing yet lyrical account of the fatal hunger strike of Irish Republican Army prisoner Bobby Sands in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland, in 1981. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: It's a brilliant work of power, maturity and vision that should not be missed. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Hunger is daunting and powerful work. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Hunger 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. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Shockingly immediate and philosophically reflective, Hunger is an indelibly moving tribute to what makes us human. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: A mesmerizing 96 minutes of cinema, one of the truly extraordinary filmmaking debuts of recent years. Read more
Reyhan Harmanci, San Francisco Chronicle: It'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. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This 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. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Hunger -- the disturbing, provocative, brilliant feature debut from British director Steve McQueen -- does for modern film what Caravaggio did to Renaissance painting. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Relying on images more than words, it's a plea for humanity in times of insanity. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Imagine how most filmmakers would tell this story and then see 'Hunger': the differences are bold and powerful and restore faith in cinema's ability to cover history free from the bounds of texts and personalities. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: I've seen Hunger three times, and with each screening, the spectacle of violence, suffering, and pain becomes more awful and more awe-inspiring. Read more