intimacy, but this seems to be a foregone conclusion, the result of an elegant experiment that was rigged from the start." Donald Clarke of The Irish Times called it "the most wholesome film made about unwholesomeness since The Exorcist" noting that "the underlying current of Puritanism is, however, more than a little oppressive". Writing for MUBI, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky said, "Every scene [is] ladled with big dollops of cinema's most respectable cop-out: ambiguity ... Shame wears its emptiness like a badge of honor; McQueen is trying for banal blankness, and though he succeeds in that respect, you kind of wish that a filmmaker (and one with a background as an artist at that) would aspire to do more than just say nothing." In the blog for the British journal The Art of Psychiatry, psychiatrist Abby Seltzer praised Mulligan for her portrayal of an individual with borderline personality disorder. While she had initially approached the film warily because of reviews that focused on Brandon's sex addiction, she found it "a moving and accurate portrayal of psychopathology ... [that should be] compulsory viewing for all practising clinicians." Top-ten lists 1st – David Fear, Time Out New York 1st – Gregory Ellwood, HitFix 2nd – Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York 2nd – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times 2nd – Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle 3rd – Marshall Fine, Hollywood & Fine 3rd – Peter Knegt, Indiewire 3rd – James Berardinelli, Reelviews 4th – Kimberley Jones, Austin Chronicle 5th – Kate Erbland, Boxoffice Magazine 5th – Kristopher Tapley, HitFix 5th – Sasha Stone, Awards Daily 6th – James Rocchi, Boxoffice Magazine 6th – Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter 6th – Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News 6th – Christopher Bell, Indiewire 7th – Liam Lacey and Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail 7th – Aaron Hills, Village Voice 8th – Kevin Jagernauth, Indiewire 10th – Alison Willmore, The A.V. Club 10th – Don Kaye, MSN Movies 10th – Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter In 2016, it was ranked one of the 100 greatest motion pictures since 2000 in a critics' poll conducted by BBC Culture. Accolades References External links 2010s English-language films 2010s British films 2010s erotic drama films 2010s psychological drama films 2011 films 2011 drama films 2011 independent films British erotic drama films British independent films British psychological drama films British LGBT-related films Films about sex addiction Films about siblings Films about dysfunctional families