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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 28 Aug 2014

Has the benefit of a superb cast who give their all to the moment, bulging with fury and panic, with O'Connell and Mendelsohn extraordinary…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 28 Aug 2014

Starred Up is an edgy, teeming thriller, brilliantly disorienting, making strange a world we thought we knew, at least from other movies…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 27 Aug 2014

Starred Up has three powerful advantages: a realistic setting, fierce performances and the insight brought by scripter Jonathan Asser, who…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 27 Aug 2014

Director David Mackenzie's gripping, convincing and convincingly violent convict drama owes its authenticity largely to the experiences of…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 27 Aug 2014

O'Connell, soon to head the cast of Angelina Jolie's Unbroken, explodes onscreen in a star-is-born performance…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 27 Aug 2014

Thematically tough and emotionally rough, Starred Up is the kind of movie you might enter into with some reluctance…

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By Brandon Judell (340) for CultureCatch (133) on 26 Aug 2014

If a Brit film ever begged for English subtitles, this is the one…

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By Jason Zingale (478) for Bullz-Eye.com (1,091) on 26 Aug 2014

From the cell block politics, to the crooked authorities supposedly in charge of keeping the peace, Starred Up doesn't pull any punches in…

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By Kristy Puchko (422) for CinemaBlend.com (1,378) on 26 Aug 2014

Boldly and brilliantly made. Starred Up is raw, relentless and riveting…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 26 Aug 2014

It’s a credit to both Mackenzie’s talent as a director of actors and to the underlying humaneness of his vision that he argues that the…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 26 Aug 2014

Starred Up is HEAVY with slang and accents. You won’t understand a third of it…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 26 Aug 2014

Like Eric Bana's menacingly raw breakout in 2000's Chopper or Tom Hardy's in 2008's Bronson, O'Connell bristles with terrifying hair-trigger…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Aug 2014

This is an unsparing picture, one whose violence, though deftly handled, is bone-crunchingly rough…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 25 Aug 2014

One of the best prison dramas you're likely to see in some time, but the real stand-out is the introduction of Jack O'Connell…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 25 Aug 2014

Though it is, finally, an affecting story of two damaged men bound by blood and something like love (and also a thrillerish catalog of double…

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By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Aug 2014

The cautious optimism with which it answers questions about rehabilitation and forgiveness is credible because the characters and setting feel…

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By Daniel Green (105) for CineVue (2,163) on 25 Aug 2014

Having constructed such a dramatically enticing set-up, it's thus disappointing to see Mackenzie fall back on familiar generic tropes with…

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By Anna Storm (53) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 24 Aug 2014

Excellent showcase of director, star and writer talent…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 24 Mar 2014

It's the strength of the performances that really makes Starred Up a cut above most British dramas, particularly those of Mendelsohn and O'Connell…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 23 Mar 2014

Mackenzie keeps us grounded in the maze of prison life, coaxing powerful performances from his cast, each apparently encouraged and emboldened…

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