Take Shelter sucks you inside the stuttering consciousness of the taciturn, tense Curtis (Michael Shannon), a 35-year-old blue-collar worker in small-town Ohio who starts having some pretty goddamn intense dreams. Writer/director Jeff Nichols has a clever, merciless eye for what’ll most effectively poke at and twist an audience; if nothing else, Take Shelter is a convincing trip into the head of someone who may or may not be going insane. In chunks, Curtis’s challenges seem manageable; in total, they’re devastating. Some distracting CG aside, Nichols renders Curtis’s fragmenting life in a way that’s jarring, wearying, and heartbreakingly realistic. (See Movie Times)
‘Take Shelter’
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Might want to update your “See Movie Times” link so it goes to the times for today–the day you’re suggesting it–rather that for October 27th. (The day you wrote the Suggests listing, I’m guessing.)