Nomadland

Chloe Zhao's Nomadland mimics life scrupulously...

What's most striking about Nomadland is the almost incidental manner in which it tells its stories - eschewing strident dramatic crises or narrative lurches for something altogether more ambient.

Not since Robert Redford in All Is Lost has a star performer carried an entire film through wordless looks and glances.

Frances McDormand delivers a career-best turn in this gently meditative drama about the failure of the American dream.

Life on the road has never been so tenderly captured, politically alive and profoundly moving.

Personally, I am fine with the more sentimental moments of Nomadland. Social realism needs the space to contain multitudes and contradictions, just as life does.

In its delicate, poignant account of its travellers’ broken lives, Nomadland has a tenderness that you simply don’t find in most mainstream Hollywood filmmaking.

With Nomadland, Chloé Zhao completes a trilogy of sorts that offers an authentic and empathetic portrait of the dispossessed of the American West.

Chloé Zhao and Frances McDormand combine to deliver a stirring commentary on the economy today, that bristles with bravery.

Anchored by a towering performance by Frances McDormand, this is one of the best films of the year and an incredible time capsule of a defining moment in American history.