Shame

Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie 18 cert, general release, 100 min

This story of sex addiction is a suffocatingly moral work of art, writes DONALD CLARKE

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