Shame

"Certain to arouse critical acclaim and smart-audience interest wherever it's shown."

"With its focus on relentless sexual craving the movie is superficially bold, but lacks the bravery to go all the way."

"Not for the faint-hearted, prudish or impatient, Shame is as complex and ambiguous as its characters."

"In a movie era remarkable for its reluctance to dramatize erotic intimacy, Shame merits praise for the dark energy of its sexual encounters."

"Pure and pitiless and oddly disapproving."

"The seriousness of its effort is hard to deny."

"Shame is a disturbing film that penetrates our minds and gets beneath our skins as we try to understand its characters."

"This is fluid, rigorous, serious cinema; the best kind of adult movie."

"This is fluid, rigorous, serious cinema; the best kind of adult movie."

"There's no easy way to shake off Shame. It gets in your head."

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

"A grim and arty drama."

"This is a psychologically claustrophobic film that strips its characters bare literally and figuratively, leaving them, and us, nowhere to hide."

"Its dramatic and stylistic prowess provides a cinematic jolt that is bracing to experience."

"The 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."

"Brave, beautifully acted and emotionally revealing — an early strong contender for the most provocative and compelling film of the year."

"Shame is packed with scenes which are both immaculately composed and seething with meaning."

"A moody, textured piece."