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Genre : Drama
Release Date : December 02, 2011
MPAA Rating : NC-17
Duration : 99 minute(s)
Production Budget : -
Studio : Fox Searchlight Pictures
Official Site : http://www.foxsearchlight.com/shame
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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 ]
the story inches toward its hackneyed climax of glaringly foreshadowed melodrama it collapses like a weakened erection under a heavy blanket
Review rate : C-
by Cole Smithey [ColeSmithey.com ]
the movie is superficially bold, but lacks the bravery to go all the way
by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
the more time you've had to sit and ponder Shame, the more deeply it will impress you, weaving itself into your consciousness
Review rate : A-
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 ]