FILM REVIEW: Take Shelter (15)

Michael Shannon delivers an incendiary performance, which is tipped for Oscar consideration, as a man convinced the end of the world is nigh in writer-director Jeff Nichols’s drama.

Curtis LaForche (Shannon) lives in a close-knit community in Ohio with his wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) and daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart).

The doting husband experiences a series of terrifying dreams about impending apocalypse.

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Determined to hide the truth about Doomsday from his loved ones, Curtis begins to construct a storm shelter in his back yard, which he hopes will protect his family from the destruction he believes is looming on the horizon.

Curtis’s irrational behavioural worsens and his marriage buckles under the strain.

Released: November 25 (UK & Ireland, selected cinemas), 112 mins

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