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Take Shelter , IQ Score 163/200

Take Shelter has an IQ Score of 163/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

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163 Masterclass

Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity

Take Shelter poster, IQ Score 163/200, Masterclass tier on TV Intelligentsia

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50
42
Educational Value/50
39
Craft & Quality/50
41
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)  · How we score →

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The TVI Take

Jeff Nichols's 2011 film anchored by Michael Shannon as a working-class Ohio father suffering apocalyptic visions, Jessica Chastain anchors as his wife. The structural commitment to letting mental-illness-vs-actual-apocalypse cognitive material remain genuinely ambiguous until the final shot is canonical early-2010s indie prestige work.

One of the medium's most-formally-disciplined paranoia films.

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