Nomadland - Reviews

It is a gorgeous film that’s alternately dreamlike in the way it captures the beauty of this country and grounded in its story about the kind of person we don’t usually see in movies. I love everything about it.

...a Springsteen song in movie form, a beautifully rendered tale of what it means to be disenfranchised in America. Life on the road has never been so tenderly captured, politically alive and profoundly moving.

Frances McDormand is typically convincing as Fern – another indomitable outsider role in which she immerses herself completely...

...an elegiac character study and somber docudrama about Americans living on the edge.

...they've managed to make that rare thing: a film that feels both necessary and sublime.

It is a gentle, compassionate, questioning film about the American soul.

Settle in for an instant masterpiece about the vagabond’s life on the road.

...a powerful character study about one woman's desire to resist settling down.

...its blend of documentary and fiction allowing those on the margins to tell their stories on their own terms.

McDormand gives one of the quietest, most powerful performances of her career as a woman living on and discovering the joys of the road in this affecting, memorable drama.

...mindful, stoic, and just so beautiful.

In Chloé Zhao’s hauntingly beautiful Oscar winner, a widow from a mining town joins the drifters of small-town America.

The melancholy lyricism of Nomadland is something truly special, and this quiet marvel of a film deserves your attention.

...an old-fashioned road movie, stuffed with semi-socialist rhetoric and quiet contemplation on the American soul.

As usual, Oscar-winner Frances McDormand delivers a rich, physically detailed performance that leaves as much under the surface as above it.