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.

This is truly her movie and she carries it on her shoulders without a single false note.

An emotionally rich, painfully relevant film about the waning days of the American Dream.

Zhao is a master at capturing people and their stories in such an authentic way that is usually water-downed in movies.

One of the great pleasures of Nomadland is the consistently shrewd and perceptive manner in which Fern’s hidden depths and flinty pragmatics defy expectations