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The Rider

2017

Chloé Zhao

Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Terri Dawn Pourier ...

6.9

6,399

Drama. Western 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. Back home, with little desire or alternatives for a different way of life, Brady’s sense of inadequacy mounts as he is unable to ride or rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"[It] gains artful integrity from Zhao’s favored docu-fiction technique (...) and dusty-dreamy visual style."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A lovely and desolate modern Western (...) A rare gem, a small, acutely observed portrait"	POS
United States	Emily Yoshida Vulture	"Zhao’s framing of Brady’s story is unmistakably contemporary (...) It takes what easily could have been reportage and turns it into modern American myth."	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"A breath of fresh prairie air for westerns (...) Zhao is a filmmaker of extraordinary tact and insight"	POS
United States	Bradley Warren The Playlist	"Zhao reimagines the entrenched masculine persona of the cowboy. The result is an entrancing, deeply moving effort"	POS
United States	Ben Croll The Wrap	"'The Rider' marries the majestic vistas of the greatest American westerns with a deeply interior story of a cowboy having to renegotiate his identity. The central question is both universal and hyper-specific"	POS
United States	Peter Keough Boston Globe	"What cinema is capable of at its best: It reproduces a world with such acuteness, fidelity, and empathy that it transcends the mundane and touches on the universal (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Zhao turns the story of real-life bronc rider Brady Jandreau into a gritty, graceful character study. Once 'The Rider' hooks you - and believe me, it will - there's no way you will ever forget it (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Bilge Ebiri Village Voice	"Zhao achieves a lovely balance between unflinching realism and the hauntingly lyrical (...) A work of heartbreaking beauty"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"It's just plain excellent (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Impressive, stylish (...) [A] very accomplished film (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"'The Rider' is a stunningly-shot film, its crisp imagery and livid sound design in natural harmony with piece and its South Dakota settings (...) Its emotional connections pulsate throughout"	POS

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