The Rider (2018)
Directed by Chloé Zhao
Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.
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It’s an approach that becomes overwhelming well before the family is devastated by tragedy, and contrasts markedly with the more quiet melancholy running through The Rider and Nomadland.
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“Hamnet” lacks the quiet, subtle pitch of “The Rider” and the Oscar-winning “Nomadland,”…
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I did go back and watch her movie The Rider, which I actually liked more than Nomadland!