Write an ordered list of reviews about "shotgun stories".
1. [Star Michael Shannon is] one of the most formidable unsung actors working today in American movies.
2. It's rare that a picture that deals with as much tragedy as this one also manages to convey as much warmth to its characters.
3. Shotgun Stories defines the classic western phrase 'doing what a man's got to do' as both a moral imperative and a biological compulsion.
4. ... here there's also an undercurrent of biblical revenge that lends the narrative a sense of violent menace and an almost continuous tension.
5. 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.
6. Though none of the boys, now young men, talks about it, they all bear burdens of rejection and rage.
7. 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.
8. This promising debut feature is remarkable for its use of inaction, the threats, standoffs, aborted shoving matches, but very little actual violence.
9. 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.
10. No question, it's a humorless downer, but also an impressive character study, with depth proportionate to the tragic nature of its theme.