Users

Now Playing

FA Rankings

All Rankings
N
Top 1000 FA

Sections

TV Series

TOPs

Awards | Festivals

Information

Click here to copy URL

The Rider

6.9

5,880

Ratings

Add to lists

where to watch

flatrate

rent

buy

Pro reviews

Original title: The Rider
Year: 2017
Running time: 104 min.
Country: United States
Director: Chloé Zhao
Screenwriter: Chloé Zhao
Music: Nathan Halpern
Cinematography: Joshua James Richards
Cast: Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Terri Dawn Pourier, Cat Clifford, Lane Scott, Tanner Langdeau, James Calhoon, Derrick Janis
Producer: Caviar Films, Highwayman Films
Genre: Drama. Western | Horses. Independent Film (US). Small Town Life (North-american)
Synopsis: 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.

Rankings Position

#107 Best Westerns in the history of film

Awards: 2018: National Board of Review (NBR): Top Independent Films

2018: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: New Generation Award (Zhao)

2018: Gotham Awards: Best Film

2018: British Independent Film Awards: Nominated for Best International Film

2018: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): Best Picture

2017: Cannes Film Festival: Art Cinema Award (Top prize at Directors’ Fortnight)

Show 2 more awards

2017: Independent Spirit Awards: 4 Nomin. including Best Feature & Director

2017: Valladolid Film Festival: Silver Spike, Best new director & Best actor (Jandreau)

Critics' reviews

"[It] gains artful integrity from Zhao’s favored docu-fiction technique (...) and dusty-dreamy visual style."

Guy Lodge: Variety
"A lovely and desolate modern Western (...) A rare gem, a small, acutely observed portrait"

Todd McCarthy: The Hollywood Reporter
"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."

Emily Yoshida: Vulture
"A breath of fresh prairie air for westerns (...) Zhao is a filmmaker of extraordinary tact and insight"

Ann Hornaday: The Washington Post
"Zhao reimagines the entrenched masculine persona of the cowboy. The result is an entrancing, deeply moving effort"

Bradley Warren: The Playlist
"'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"

Ben Croll: The Wrap
"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)"

Peter Keough: Boston Globe
Show 5 more reviews

Movie Soulmates' ratings: Register so you can access movie recommendations tailored to your movie taste.
Friends' ratings: Register so you can check out ratings by your friends, family members, and like-minded members of the FA community.

Ranking Lists Position

68 My Top 10 Movies from 2017 (53)

Is the synopsis/plot summary missing? Do you want to report a spoiler, error or omission? Please send us a message.
If you are not a registered user please send us an email to info@filmaffinity.com

All copyrighted material (movie posters, DVD covers, stills, trailers) and trademarks belong to their respective producers and/or distributors.

For US ratings information please visit: www.mpaa.org www.filmratings.com www.parentalguide.org

Land

2021

Robin Wright

6.2
(1,491)
Maixabel

2021

Icíar Bollaín

7.2
(11,210)
The King's Man

2021

Matthew Vaughn

5.6
(7,107)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

2006

Tom Tykwer

6.7
(59,038)