Shame

Steve McQueen's "Shame" is a gritty, provocative drama about sex addiction and the havoc it wreaks. While boasting savage but finely tuned performances from Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan and featuring some powerfully realized scenes (the lively and brilliantly revealing dinner date, the panicky ménage à trois), the script ultimately didn't manage to dig past anger, frustration and desperation to find something even darker and more consuming, namely, shame.