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Alynda Wheat, People: VERY GOOD (cg) "Michael Shannon's performance is subtle, devastating... 'Take Shelter' is too slow and too long, but the performances make it indelible." (Read the full review...) 102 words, 09/29/11 Richard Corliss, Time: EXCELLENT "...an eerie drama that blends impulses of the art film (family tensions seeking resolution) with those of the mainstream (a lone man facing great calamity).... rare... locates its dread in the all-too-realistic travails of a family coping with the Great Recession..." (Read the full review...) 611 words, 09/23/11 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...both daring thematically and striking aesthetically... Director Jeff Nichols achieves such a seamless balance and such a gripping, tense tone, it's hard to believe this is only his second feature film." (Read the full review...) 667 words, 09/29/11 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Writer-director Jeff Nichols builds his elegantly shot, weather-sensitive horror story in waves of tension that crest as if pulled by tempests." (Read the full review...) 79 words, 09/30/11 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: VERY GOOD (cg) "Shannon gives himself over completely to a complex role and leaves you shattered.... Chastain's quietly implosive performance breaks your heart.... That's all I'm going to say about 'Take Shelter,' the better to let you get lost in its dark poetry and enveloping mystery." (Read the full review...) 168 words, 09/30/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...masterful filmmaking." (Read the full review...) 713 words, 10/07/11 Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...builds to moments of dread, sadness and possible redemption with incredible sure-handedness... As impressive as the film's scares are, there's a lot more to 'Take Shelter' than the sensations it so successfully evokes." (Read the full review...) 760 words, 09/27/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...remarkable.... a quiet, relentless exploration of the latent (and not so latent) terrors that bedevil contemporary American life, a horror movie that will trouble your sleep not with visions of monsters but with a more familiar dread." (Read the full review...) 945 words, 09/30/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "Michael Shannon creates depth through careful restraint. If a performance this powerful isn't nominated for an Oscar, the world really might be upside-down." (Read the full review...) 245 words, 09/30/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...dread is the prevailing mood of this pre-apocalyptic drama -- a film very much about this moment in time." (Read the full review...) 490 words, 09/30/11 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It would be possible to appreciate Michael Shannon's fabulous work in 'Take Shelter' far better if the filmmaker lost a quarter of the two-hour running time -- there are many overlong scenes that make this a needlessly tough sit." (Read the full review...) 352 words, 09/30/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...in the enveloping strangeness of Jeff Nichols' new drama, Michael Shannon's formidable presence never crowds the larger, scarier riddles underpinning this spare tale of one man's psychic suffocation." (Read the full review...) 606 words, 10/07/11 John Anderson, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...as a portrayal of mental illness from the inside out, 'Take Shelter' seems unprecedented, and horrifyingly real.... Michael Shannon is the heart and soul of director Jeff Nichols' harrowing, finely controlled and unforgettable movie." (Read the full review...) 385 words, 10/21/11 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: EXCELLENT "Director Jeff Nichols has a genius for making landscapes and everyday objects resonate like crazy, for nailing the texture of dread.... This is a terrific monster-movie manqué -- a pure distillation of portent." (Read the full review...) 647 words, 09/26/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...masterful filmmaking." (Read the full review...) 713 words, 10/07/11 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "Chastain grounds the film by listening and responding, making it as much a portrait of a marriage -- of sacrifice, compromise, and, most significantly, boundary-establishing -- as it is a portrayal of madness in crazy times." (Read the full review...) 727 words, 09/28/11 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Here's how Nichols described 'Take Shelter' at its Sundance premiere: 'It's a snapshot of a feeling that's out in the world right now. It's a general sense of stress and anxiety and I think it's palpable.' Indeed it is. 'Take Shelter' gnaws the mind." (Read the full review...) 469 words, 10/14/11 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...resonates with the Doomsday economic and environmental scenarios and the fear-mongering hyperbole of the airwaves." (Read the full review...) 587 words, 10/14/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "Michael Shannon's wrenching performance is the film; he conveys the uncertain terror of a man who'd almost prefer to be losing his mind if it meant the rest of the world could keep going." (Read the full review...) 144 words, 10/13/11
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Taut, unsettling, haunting and powerful... stars Michael Shannon in a shattering performance as a man caught up in forces beyond his control." (Read the full review...) 511 words, 10/14/11 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a movie for this moment in time, this moment in our lives." (Read the full review...) 469 words, 10/21/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Is he seeing the future, birds swarming before a nightmarish rain of oil, a tornado? Or is he coming unglued? Should he protect his family by preparing them for disaster, or check himself into a hospital, protecting them from him?" (Read the full review...) 361 words, 10/07/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "Director Jeff Nichols keeps the film crackling with anxiety, understanding that impending violence is the scariest kind." (Read the full review...) 191 words, 10/14/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Our nightmares may not be as tactile, but they are every bit as real, and Shannon and Nichols capture that. They make 'Take Shelter' not just a fascinating character study but a kind of horror movie as well." (Read the full review...) 529 words, 10/28/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: OUTSTANDING (cg) "I was reminded of one of the most moving works of art I know, Egon Schiele's 1918 painting 'The Family,' in which a nameless man, woman, and child huddle against the darkness... hits many of us exactly where we live." (Read the full review...) 971 words, 10/21/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...the strange, gripping story of Curtis and his visions, as they begin to consume his life.... a movie that confronts its own hard challenges - and feels utterly, uncomfortably relevant in this new Age of Anxiety." (Read the full review...) 547 words, 09/30/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "Writer-director Jeff Nichols does fine work... Shannon is so good at playing [torment] that it might never occur to you to admire his acting.... [but this is] a film without suspense and with a slow-moving story that unfolds without surprise or embellishment." (Read the full review...) 491 words, 10/07/11 John Hartl, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a knockout.... the movie communicates a sense of mystery -- and dread -- that can't be shaken." (Read the full review...) 410 words, 10/21/11 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a psychological ticking-clock movie that accumulates real terror on the back of Michael Shannon's powerhouse acting." (Read the full review...) 479 words, 10/21/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Michael Shannon's powerfully imploded performance ignites one of the best films of the year." (Read the full review...) 356 words, 10/28/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...one of 2011's best.... Shannon is perfectly cast, a creepily magnetic actor with an otherworldly calm, tight jaw and piercing, set-apart eyes. The performance and movie stick with you, with masterful construction and muted psychological horror." (Read the full review...) 218 words, 11/17/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...offers little refuge; instead, it holds up a mean mirror to our times. It is a disturbing, jittery, powerful portrait of now. See it." (Read the full review...) 361 words, 10/28/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD (cg) "...depicts the day-to-day lives of the working class with precision and affection... contains some of the best dream sequences I've ever seen..." (Read the full review...) 541 words, 10/28/11
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "Chastain grounds the film by listening and responding, making it as much a portrait of a marriage -- of sacrifice, compromise, and, most significantly, boundary-establishing -- as it is a portrayal of madness in crazy times." (Read the full review...) 727 words, 09/28/11 Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an expertly crafted film from top to bottom. A psychological thriller and family drama framed as a character piece, the movie is deep without being too complex and slowly paced without ever lagging." (Read the full review...) 645 words, 09/30/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...doesn't have the ring of the 'I'm mad as hell!' tirade in 'Network,' but it will do.... wavers between the terrifying stasis of 'The Birds' and the bogus theatrics of 'The Happening.' " (Read the full review...) 180 words, 10/20/11 Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "...so baldly metaphorical at its climax that it began to feel pretentious to me... There's an intriguing idea here, but it needed to be better disguised." (Read the full review...) 236 words, 05/16/11 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: VERY GOOD (cg) "Shannon has certainly cornered the cuckoo-bird market, and how you feel about 'Take Shelter' will depend largely on how you respond to his patented nutcase technique. But in terms of overall filmmaking, writer-director Nichols -- who previously made the 2007 'Shotgun Stories' -- knows what he's doing." (Read the full review...) 750 words, 09/29/11 Bill Weber, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "Michael Shannon's haunting work, from Curtis's mounting fears of flood and wind to his anguished public outburst at a community chowdown, keeps the audience filled with an active, dreadful fear of seeing a good man destroyed by a cursed fate." (Read the full review...) 516 words, 09/25/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "Michael Shannon's wrenching performance is the film; he conveys the uncertain terror of a man who'd almost prefer to be losing his mind if it meant the rest of the world could keep going." (Read the full review...) 144 words, 10/13/11 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: EXCELLENT (cg) "...harnesses the intensity of some superb actors as well as spine-chilling set pieces for a tense character study about the devastation caused by mental illness." (Read the full review...) 569 words, 10/28/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: EXCELLENT "...a dazzling piece of filmmaking... isn't the sort of film you'd seek out for fun and relaxation. It's ultimately a bleak vision, and a circumscribed one, but remarkable all the same..." (Read the full review...) 425 words, 09/30/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...remarkable.... a quiet, relentless exploration of the latent (and not so latent) terrors that bedevil contemporary American life, a horror movie that will trouble your sleep not with visions of monsters but with a more familiar dread." (Read the full review...) 945 words, 09/30/11 David Denby, New Yorker: OUTSTANDING "...one particular shot, of Michael Shannon holding the little girl, with black clouds behind them, could become as iconic an image of this moment of American unease as Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' has become for all the anxieties of modern life." (Read the full review...) 488 words, 10/10/11 David Edelstein, NPR: OUTSTANDING "...a terrific piece of work. Director Jeff Nichols has composed nothing less than a symphony of modern American bad vibes." (Read the full review...) 565 words, 09/30/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...dread is the prevailing mood of this pre-apocalyptic drama -- a film very much about this moment in time." (Read the full review...) 490 words, 09/30/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: OUTSTANDING "An intense psychological thriller that builds toward an explosive conclusion, indie writer-director Jeff Nichols' 'Take Shelter' may be the most powerful American film I've seen this year." (Read the full review...) 1,055 words, 09/29/11
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "A hallucinatory thriller anchored by a deeply resonant sense of unease... finds writer-director Jeff Nichols honing, polishing and amply confirming the raw filmmaking talent he displayed in 'Shotgun Stories.' " (Read the full review...) 666 words, 01/25/11 David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: OUTSTANDING "...a masterfully controlled piece of work on every level -- from its precise modulation of mood to its piercing emotional accuracy, its impeccable craftsmanship and breathtaking imagery." (Read the full review...) 734 words, 05/15/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...dread is the prevailing mood of this pre-apocalyptic drama -- a film very much about this moment in time." (Read the full review...) 490 words, 09/30/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...absorbing and impressively made... has a daunting cumulative power and eerie suggestiveness.... director Jeff Nichols creates a spellbinding psychological horror." (Read the full review...) 899 words, 01/30/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...remarkable.... a quiet, relentless exploration of the latent (and not so latent) terrors that bedevil contemporary American life, a horror movie that will trouble your sleep not with visions of monsters but with a more familiar dread." (Read the full review...) 945 words, 09/30/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: EXCELLENT "...a dazzling piece of filmmaking... isn't the sort of film you'd seek out for fun and relaxation. It's ultimately a bleak vision, and a circumscribed one, but remarkable all the same..." (Read the full review...) 425 words, 09/30/11
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