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Maureen M. Hart, Chicago Tribune: Director Jeff Nichols lets the action unfold slowly following an impromptu insult, but the escalation of hatred and pain feels natural. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Shotgun Stories has a flawless cast, but it's the peculiarity of Michael Shannon that keeps it from becoming too obvious. Read more
Joshua Katzman, Chicago Reader: ... here there's also an undercurrent of biblical revenge that lends the narrative a sense of violent menace and an almost continuous tension. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: Well-plotted, with a strong lead performance by Michael Shannon, and a fair amount of authentic regional flavor. It isn't really meant to be a treatise on Southern life. At heart, it's a country-fried genre film, minus the peppery white gravy. Read more
Michael Ordona, Los Angeles Times: Shotgun Stories is a cautionary tale about revenge, but more than that, it is a beautiful, authentic-feeling portrait of a family and a place. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: Jeff Nichols modern Western is laconic and lazily captivating, its silence slowly building to rage. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Yes, it's a mite pretentious and on the slow side. But debuting director Jeff Nichols has an eye for small-town America and a sensibility that he shares with fellow North Carolina School of the Arts alumnus David Gordon Greene. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Few films are so observant about how we relate with one another. Few are as sympathetic. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: An austere rural landscape, festering hatred, class tensions, terse dialogue -- these are common currency in indie movies these days. Shotgun Stories uses them all, but manages to stand out from the crowd. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: Like his fellow Mason-Dixon minimalist David Gordon Green (the film's producer), [director] Nichols favors mood and ellipses over momentum and explanations, which gives this contemporary Hatfields-versus-McCoys narrative a beguiling, drifting atmosphere. Read more
Eddie Cockrell, Variety: A precisely modulated yet cumulatively forceful story of a rural family feud turned deadly. Read more
Jim Ridley, Village Voice: [Star Michael Shannon is] one of the most formidable unsung actors working today in American movies. Read more