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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 24 Sep 2014

Director David Mackenzie has empathy for the characters, but also knows how to ratchet up the tension and make the scene of mayhem pack a wallop…

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 24 Sep 2014

A potent and disturbing experience. Fortunately it’s much more, offering sharp performances and genuine drama…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 23 Sep 2014

Starred Up isn't just violence for violence's sake…

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By Kate Muir (612) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 22 Sep 2014

Take one teenager. Add raw testosterone. Arm with unquenchable, unreasoning anger. Lock in pressure-cooker cell. Unleash. Roll camera…

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By David Denby (676) for New Yorker (1,403) on 21 Sep 2014

At first, you may think, Oh, it’s that damn prison movie again, but Starred Up has a much more intimate texture of affection and disdain…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 17 Sep 2014

For all its savagery and hopelessness, Starred Up manages to be sympathetic, not only because of O’Connell’s galvanizing turn, but also…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 15 Sep 2014

O'Connell-also impressive as a stranded soldier in the forthcoming '71-gives Starred Up the muscle and above all the emotional continuity that…

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By Jeff Baker (191) for Oregonian (1,550) on 11 Sep 2014

O'Connell is a force, tough and tender, and Mendelsohn matches him in a stirring English prison drama…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 10 Sep 2014

It's almost as difficult to sit through Starred Up as it is satisfying to watch it…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Orange County Register (218) on 04 Sep 2014

The British prison movie Starred Up has the excitement of a nonstop psychological cage fight, but its goal is enlightenment, not terror or…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 04 Sep 2014

captures the madness of a societal menace without ever losing sight of his humanity…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 Sep 2014

It marries ferocious, unnerving violence and waves of profanity to powerful, psychologically acute performances in a way that is intensely…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 04 Sep 2014

There's a nasty cycle suggested by the way this prison operates…

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By David Hiltbrand (183) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 04 Sep 2014

The raw emotions on display need no translation. David Mackenzie directs the film in a piercingly realistic style…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Sep 2014

This is strong medicine, yet it's also exhilarating…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 03 Sep 2014

Mackenzie's 8th feature demonstrates the vivid, idiosyncratic storytelling fluency... of his most recent movies…

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By Zach Hollwedel (108) for Under the Radar (636) on 03 Sep 2014

[O'Connell] fully immerses himself in the character, bringing the right amounts of cocksureness and vulnerability to the role…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 02 Sep 2014

The most tremendous thing about Starred Up is exactly how simple it keeps things, and what a richly nuanced story emerges in the process…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 28 Aug 2014

This could serve as the archetype of prison dramas except that in others of the genre, the spoken words could be understood…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 28 Aug 2014

As it begins, with its hard, unflinching look at a prisoner transferred to an adult institution, it might recall Steve McQueen's very tough…

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