Jeff Nichols is not somebody you would usually associate with the horror genre, but his 2011 film Take Shelter took a simple character study and turned it into a terrifying exploration of the ...

The 2010s have been full of intense psychological dramas that traipse over the dividing line between “thriller” and “horror,” with 2011 as a particular bumper crop. From Take Shelter and ...

A hallucinatory thriller anchored by a deeply resonant sense of unease, “Take Shelter” finds writer-director Jeff Nichols honing, polishing and amply confirming the raw filmmaking talent he ...

Two films that played Cannes this year, “Take Shelter” and Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia,” both deal with how humans react to an end-of-world scenario.

A friend expresses admiration for his life, but nothing’s right as rain for Curtis, the small-town family man at the center of “Take Shelter.” The rain, in fact, looks tarnished, and the sky ...

"Take Shelter" culminates with an escalating series of crises and explosions, the biggest of them when Curtis goes off, with all the pent-up fury of a volcano releasing magma, at a local fish fry ...

Deauville 2011: ‘Take Shelter’ Wins Grand Prize. Matthew Gordon’s “The Dynamiter” took the jury award and Tony Kaye’s “Detachment” snags the international critics and Cartier ...

I’ve never not liked Michael Shannon in a movie, but his Sundance movie “Take Shelter,” in which the Oscar nominee for “Revolutionary Road” once again plays a guy comi… ...

Writer-director Jeff Nichols’ apocalyptic drama ‘Take Shelter’ and the black-and-white silent film ‘The Artist’ emerged as top contenders for Film Independent’s 2012 Spirit Awards on ...