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- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: The remarkable odyssey of a feisty woman who finds community and her true self in her home on the road.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: There is great beauty in the wide, open spaces Fern ranges around in…but there is also a melancholy quality to this lifestyle – Fern is always…watching someone leaving… settles into your bones like a great piece of American literature.
- Karl Delossantos @ Smash Cut Reviews
- Excerpt: Chloé Zhao makes Nomadland‘s melancholic but hopeful story of nomads traversing the American West a stunningly complex character study of life on the margins of society.
- Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A beautiful marriage of fiction and documentary.
- [New] | MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Come on down for a gen-u-ine American dystopia at the crossroads of end-of-empire and late-stage capitalism. Chloé Zhao’s outsider’s eye is hugely sympathetic but unhindered by knee-jerk patriotism.
- Allyson Johnson @ TheYoungFolks.com
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Aching and empathetic, “Nomadland” speaks a languid cinematic language all its own.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Frances McDormand already has two Oscars, and might need to find space on her shelf for a third.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: A family is formed by way of a philosophy. New friendships are therefore a delicate process of boundaries and understanding. Zhao doesn’t compromise that truth.
- Matt Oakes @
- Excerpt: A departure from the road most traveled, Chloé Zhao’s journey into the American Heartland offers a glimpse of the country’s dejected finding renewed purpose, freely roaming like the buffalo before them. Frances McDormand is as good as she’s ever been and is handsomely framed by awing naturalistic cinematography and humanist direction.
- Joao Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Beverly Questad @ It’s Just Movies
- Excerpt: The film might be a nod to Freedom and shedding the encumbrance of worldly responsibility, but the ironically self-obsessed film, devoid of the connections and passions to relationships and purpose, leaves me unimpressed.
- Josh Taylor @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Director Chloé Zhao’s inspired blurring of truth and fiction in her newest film Nomadland reveals an emotional truth about the American spirit that is more profound than even the most probing documentary could capture. Her movie is a quiet triumph, the best of last year.
- [New] | James Wegg @
- Excerpt: The empty, secret side of lie
- Robert Yaniz Jr. @ Showbiz Cheat Sheet