Hunger

Michael Fassbender provides a taut, heroic turn as Bobby Sands, the IRA volunteer who led the 1981 Belfast hunger strike. English director Steve McQueen creates a commandingly cool style; his film is brutal, sobering and, like any prime work of art, exhilarating.

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