Reviews

Take Shelter decides they want to have it both ways by having the big reveal that he's hallucinating the big storm, but then also betraying that by having an actually big storm.

One thing I will say is that although Take Shelter has a few elements of horror and is certainly suspenseful, it's basically a serious character study and doesn't try to take any easy outs getting to its resolution and forcing the audience to believe one way or another.

In many ways, Take Shelter balances between both of these approaches, which may be the reason for the elevated feel of realism despite its slightly surreal nature.

Every scene he is in is memorable and there may be no scene more powerful this decade than his Lions Club scene shouting there is a storm coming.

Take Shelter is an incredibly, profoundly moving film for me on a deeply personal level, and I now regard it as my favorite film of all-time.

While I enjoyed many aspects of Take Shelter I didn't connect with it in the way I do in films I enjoy the most.

All leading up to an almost excruciatingly uncomfortable scene inside the shelter were I really was fearing that the character was about to snap and cause harm to himself or his family.