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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Lessons of Darkness (465) on 29 Sep 2011

Nichols' formally assured direction exhibits dawning-dread restraint through slow zooms and tense framing…

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By Ethan Alter (997) for Television Without Pity (337) on 29 Sep 2011

A beautifully assured work of art that doubles as an up-to-the-minute portrait of the country's mood…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 29 Sep 2011

Begins frighteningly and gets progressively more so…

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By Eugene Novikov (936) for Film Blather (908) on 28 Sep 2011

Beautiful and insinuating, with a killer sound design and accomplished performances by Shannon and Jessica Chastain as his wife…

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By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 28 Sep 2011

Take Shelter is a dark mystery that remains dark and mysterious, and harrowing, right up to the end, when it knocks you sideways…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 Sep 2011

From the first moments of the eerie storm that opens the story, dread is the prevailing mood of this pre-apocalyptic drama - a film very much…

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By Christopher Null (908) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 28 Sep 2011

Highly satisfying and frustratingly open-ended…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 28 Sep 2011

The economics of star casting aside, what would Take Shelter have been like with James McAvoy or Mark Wahlberg or Jake Gyllenhaal at its center…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 28 Sep 2011

Writer-director Jeff Nichols re-teams with his Shotgun Stories star Michael Shannon for his second feature, Take Shelter, which has a similar…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 28 Sep 2011

As with Shotgun Stories, Nichols assembles a tense portrait of blue-collar life, while deepening his thematic interests and working on a bigger…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 28 Sep 2011

A terrifically crafted little movie that bounces off current events and the nation's downbeat mood ingeniously, and that it variously suggests…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 28 Sep 2011

A dazzling piece of filmmaking, and much of the dazzle - as well as the anguished darkness - comes from Adam Stone's cinematography, which…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 28 Sep 2011

It is a quiet, relentless exploration of the latent (and not so latent) terrors that bedevil contemporary American life, a horror movie that…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 28 Sep 2011

Nichols throws curveballs, but his film is unique and unforgettable…

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By Geoff Berkshire (602) for Metromix.com (1,085) on 27 Sep 2011

In many ways a small film, but the stakes couldn't feel bigger thanks to the deeply affecting family at its center…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 27 Sep 2011

Writer-director Jeff Nichols builds his elegantly shot, weather-sensitive horror story in waves of tension that crest as if pulled by tempests…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for Associated Press (1,685) on 27 Sep 2011

Daring thematically and striking aesthetically, even as it pierces at the heart of the most relatable, everyday anxieties we all experience…

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By Drew Mcweeny (622) for HitFix (861) on 27 Sep 2011

Nicols and his regular collaborators are exciting filmmakers, and I can't wait for whatever else they have planned…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 27 Sep 2011

Alternately heavy-lidded and wide-eyed, Shannon has the coiled potential of a venomous snake...he paints a portrait of paranoia and fear with…

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By Devin Faraci (498) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 26 Sep 2011

Playing like the excruciatingly long first act of a better movie, Take Shelter long overstays its welcome while confusing narrative indolence…

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