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Direction
Steve McQueen's first film and he already knew: hold, hold, hold.
Acting
Fassbender's physical transformation is genuinely disturbing to witness.
Cinematography
Sean Bobbitt makes fecal smearing look like Renaissance painting.

Director
Steve McQueen
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