Whether it achieves such standing or not, Take Shelter succeeds in something quite impressive.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2024

A captivating experience, thanks in large part to Michael Shannon's powerful performance, with the payoff only elevating the journey into something even more satisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 24, 2023

A suspenseful, thoughtful film, propelled by Shannon’s astounding performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 6, 2023

This is the second of five films that [director Jeff] Nichols has made with [Michael] Shannon and he gives the actor roles with a kind of depth and complexity he rarely gets elsewhere.

Full Review | Feb 4, 2023

“Take Shelter” paints an intriguing picture of an embattled man losing a war within himself.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

It's an interesting set-up propelled by plenty of fine performances, but the movie never quite solves the problem of how surreal it wants Curtis' condition to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2022

Nichols does succeed in creating a disturbing film that taps into increased levels of social and individual psychological stress.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2021

The unqualified success of this eerie, elliptically staged film all comes down to a bravura performance by Michael Shannon in the lead role.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2020

Take Shelter is a powerhouse experience told on a small budget. With the quality of performance, writing, cinematography, and even digital effects, one would never know that the film was an independent, low budget film.

Full Review | Apr 1, 2020

Take Shelter is a skin-crawling heartland thriller.

Full Review | Jan 17, 2020

I would definitely recommend watching Take Shelter for the incredible dream sequences and the great performances. It will definitely leave you thinking and there's something to be said for that

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10 | Aug 3, 2019

Boasting an insidious dread throughout, the tension builds to near unbearable levels in this effective and powerful portrait of the deterioration of mental health.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2019

Shannon simmers for much of "Take Shelter," anxious and always teetering on the borders of civility - when he finally drops the façade to warn of the oncoming reckoning in public, it's simply jawdropping.

Full Review | Jan 8, 2019

[Jessica Chastain] is just as preoccupying here as in the better films she's appeared in this year.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 5, 2019

Despite a bungled finish, with Take Shelter Nichols has succeeded in creating one of the most engaging American responses to the global economic crisis.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2018

Dig beneath the surface and you'll find a sweet and very powerful tale about the strength that can be found in partnerships and the resilience of love.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 5, 2018

... while Take Shelter doesn't shrink from taking up an audience and playing with it, it's made with an exceptional eye and ear sympathetic to the anxieties that it dramatizes.

Full Review | Oct 2, 2017

What makes Nichols' film so satisfying, at least until the melodrama of the final act, is the deftness of the characterisations and the constant sense that things are probably considerably more complex than they're perceived.

Full Review | Aug 29, 2017

An intelligent bone chilling art-house film about dealing with our anxiety in the modern world.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 8, 2016

There's no suspense and little surprise. Just a long. slow grind to ruin.

Full Review | May 3, 2015