When it comes to judging the merits of a road trip movie — and there are so many of these that it’s basically a legitimate sub-genre of cinema by this point — the most logical way to proceed is on a scale of Crossroads (dismal failure) to National Lampoon’s Vacation ...

Jeff Nichols’s last film as writer-director, Take Shelter, was a masterpiece of paranoia and psychological horror, whose main protagonist was either a prophet of the apocalypse or just plain mentally ill. It was the work of a young filmmaker eager to prove his talent and already confident enough in his ...