Interesting to observe but not a great film. Frances McDormand did not have a lot of acting to do, so surprised that she was rated for this. She just wandered around a lot, doing different things, with very little dialogue or expression. I know that was the character, but it was not...
By the end of Nomadland, the experience not only gives us a better understanding of a certain type of person living right here in our own country, but Zhao is able to connect us with them on a personal level within her film as well. Ethan Brehm Ethan's New Year's Resolution in 2010...
directed and edited by Chloé Zhao, a filmmaker who was born and raised in Beijing. Her film could qualify as ethnography, a study of a little-known subset of older and just plain old Americans trying to survive on the margins of society, but it is mainly a transcendent work of fiction ...
Nomadlandis writer-director-editor Zhao’s third feature-length film following her 2015 debutSongs My Brothers Taught Me, and the masterful neo-WesternThe Riderin 2018 (my review). There was an intimacy and tenderness to those earlier films that is also on display inNomadland; it’s a notic...
2021Full ReviewKevin MaherTimes (UK)Not since Robert Redford in All Is Lost has a star performer carried an entire film through wordless looks and glances.Rated: 4/5•Apr 30, 2021Full ReviewGeoffrey MacnabiNews.co.ukIn its delicate, poignant account of its travellers’ broken lives, Nomad...
Nomadland: The BRWC Review16th September 2020 Matt Conway SHARE Winner of this year’s Venice Film Festival, Nomadland is the latest naturalistic wonder from The Rider director Chole Zhao. An upcoming auteur, Zhao has already established a distinct vision onscreen, centering on modest tales of...
Eli’s review published on Letterboxd: We are all essentially alone in the world, sharing our time with others for relatively brief amounts of time, but mostly we keep ourselves company or live with our memories of those we've loved and lost. This is true whether you are housed or not...
The film becomes a portrait of people who have been largely forgotten by conventional society but who have created a society of their own. (Fern may occasionally work at an Amazon warehouse but one gets the feeling that she would never order anything from there herself.) The film centers on...
In a year where the film industry was decimated, exceptional cinema still prevailed. ByJulian Roman Dec 31, 2020 Nomadland Review: A Stark & Poetic Portrayal of Poverty in America Movie and TV Reviews A widower (Frances McDormand) lives in her van and travels as a seasonal worker in the ...
Recommended:The Ballad of Wallis Island Review Like any great film,Nomadlandwas a group effort, but it belongs to three principal players in particular. McDormand, who can conjure a plethora of emotions with a single expression. Joshua James Richards, whose breathtaking cinematography paints the Am...