Take (film)

Ana Nichols attends the execution of a criminal, Saul Gregor, whose actions led to tragedy. Interspersed with the present day scenes, flashbacks tell the stories of Ana and Saul.

• Minnie Driver as Ana Nichols
• Jeremy Renner as Saul Gregor
• Bobby Coleman as Jesse Nichols
• Adam Rodríguez as Steven
• David Denman as Marty Nichols
• Emily Harrison as Wendy
• Bill McKinney as Benjamin Gregor
• Francesca P. Roberts as Principal
• Jessica Stier as Mrs. Bachanas
• Rocky Marquette as Mark
• Paul Schackman as Sam

As of June 2020, the film holds a 43% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, based on 28 reviews with an average rating 5.1 out of 10. The site's consensus reads: "A story of redemption held together with flashbacks, Take has moments of emotional intensity, but is ultimately undone by preachiness."[2] Metacritic rated it 22/100.[3] Ronnie Scheib of Variety wrote, "[T]he fragmented past is far more dramatic and suspenseful than the present-day story of retribution, which creates a sense of imbalance and spiritual anticlimax."[4] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter called it a "grueling, hard-to-take drama that is well worth the viewer's effort".[5] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated it 2/4 stars and called it "a monotonous slog through dirgeland".[6] Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Take is called a thriller in its press notes, but it's really one of those tragedy-under-a-microscope slogs that assumes a surfeit of storytelling angles makes a harrowing incident automatically more interesting."[7] Nathan Lee of The New York Times wrote, "If there is anything the cinema needed less than another angst-ridden, cross-cutting tragedy about crime, fate, memory and redemption, it's the kind shot in an ugly monochromatic palette suggesting a world drained of emotions and filmmakers parched of imagination."[8]

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