Reviews of Take Shelter 2011
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I was sure I had reviewed this before...? Great piece of filmmaking with solid performances from Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. It's slow and creeping, but held my attention all the way through.
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Some parts of Take Shelter are really powerful. Other parts feel a bit artificial. Overall, it's a mixed bag.
I don't think I've ever really seen a movie like this. What you got is essentially a thriller, but with almost none of the kind of things you'd expect from the genre. There's almost nothing inherently thrilling in the story itself; it all comes from the psychological conflict that Curtis is dealing with. Luckily, Nichols cast an actor more than capable…
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Michael Shannon should have won an Oscar for this. The only issues I had with the movie were also pivotal to the effect of Shannon's character, it was kind of slow moving. Without the intermittent slow pace the crowd wouldn't have shared in his pain and anguish, the film would have moved along happily past an uncomfortable moment. It doesn't, and you are forced to understand a little more deeply the nature of his torment.
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Ansiedad, miedo, drama perfectamente bien llevados.
No estoy segura que tan familiarizados y sensibles debemos estar con el tema de lo frágil que es el bienestar mental, pero esta película se lleva un aplauso.
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Michael Shannon stars in this terrific slow burner as a family man unsure whether he is spiralling into mental illness or correct in his belief that a devastating storm is coming. Writer and director Jeff Nichols does a fine balancing act with both possible outcomes and really pulls the viewer into the situation and all the tension and stress that it provokes. Shannon and Jessica Chastain are brilliant as man and wife struggling to understand what is going on and…
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Ominous and suffocating, Jeff Nichols' Take Shelter is a powerful portrait of family struggle and mental unrest through a lens of post-financial collapse paranoia. Michael Shannon, truly one of the greatest American actors of this generation, gives a tour-de-force performance in the lead role as a man apparently receiving the burden of premonitions, tipping him off to a coming apocalypse. The story explores the nature of these visions and their effect on his family. Is he a prophet? A madman?…
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As good as he is in full-blown, bug-eyed lunatic mode, Michael Shannon is even better when he seems to be struggling against the inevitable alignment of his mental state to his hulking, threatening demeanor. Jeff Nichols' beautiful, unsettling movie casts him as a father and husband beset by nightmares about an apocalyptic storm, and while the resolution is perhaps a bit too smart for its own good (he's crazy! OR NOT?!?), Shannon's tortured, deeply human performance is absolutely fascinating.
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Part of Cinebro June Challenge : #19
Had a slow start.But towards the end i was gripping my seat completely speechless..... -
Jeff Nichols can direct the shit out of a film, can't he? I mean seriously, this is interesting as it is mental and its ambiguity in the end is utterly fitting for an open film with an open interpretation of reality. I can see this going up when I see it again.
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Take Shelter is an engrossing and emotionally powerful film directed and written by Jeff Nichols and despite all of the hype and praise it gets, I was still blown away by the sheer brilliance and beauty of the whole film.
From the lightning to the birds this exceptional film is so pulsating and just outright superb. Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain's performances are exceptional and even the supporting cast are absolutely superb - this film is at times filled to…