Hunger (2008)
Directed By: Steve McQueen
Starring: Stuart Graham, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon, Michael Fassbender
Rated: NR
Run Time: 1h 36m
TMM Score: 5 Stars
Strengths: Acting, Cinematography, Themes
Weakness: NA
A group of young Irish freedom fighters/terrorists commit to not washing until their demands for political status are met. After some appeasement, but not all, are made, one man commits to a hunger strike that will most likely cost him his life
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Shame (2011)
Directed By: Steve McQueen
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale
Rated: NC-17
Run Time: 1h 41m
TMM Score: 4 Stars
Strengths: Acting, Cinematography, Brevity
Weakness: NA
Sex addict and successful New Businessman, Brandon, has his life upended when his sister comes to stay with him and breaks his reserved and solitary lifestyle.
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The Great Escape (1963)
Directed by: John Sturges
Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence
Rated: NR (Suggested PG-13 for Some War Violence)
Running Time: 2 h 52 m
TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Characters, Writing, Directing, Story, Acting
WEAKNESSES: -
Allied prisoners of war plan an escape from a German camp during World War II.
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Widows (2018)
Directed by: Steve McQueen
Starring: Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Daniel Kaluuya, Brian Tyree Henry, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Elizabeth Debicki, Jacki Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Erivo, Lukas Haas
Rated: R for Violence, Language Throughout, and Some Sexual Content/Nudity
Running Time: 2 h 9 m
TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Editing, Acting
WEAKNESSES: -
Four women with nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands’ criminal activities take fate into their own hands.
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