Exposure to serious situations may rearrange the thoughts about everything. The young cowboy decides to change his identity and his life, after having a very serious head injury.
Acting is best left to actors, lest you get this kind of shiftless, awkwardly mumbling emptiness going on for the entire length of a very drearily slow-moving movie.
Chloé Zhao's elegant documentary-flavored vision... is an exemplar in how movies can look and feel in this still-early part of the second century of cinema.
You can almost feel the wind and smell the dust of the South Dakota plains, so deeply is Chloé Zhao's new film steeped in the reality of its environment.
Jandreau, acting opposite his real-life family members and friends, disappears into a role largely based on his own experiences, oozing empathy from his pores.
It's often said that great films have the ability to transport you to a certain time, place and specific perspective, however unfamiliar that might be. Rarely is that more relevant than in The Rider.
Brady, rarely raising his voice above a murmur, takes us on an emotional journey, figuring out his own way forward. The plains go on forever; so, we hope, does hope.
