Nomadland

Makes you realize how different people are from what you think is normal.

Fern’s need for constant movement, McDormand implies in a performance of extraordinary depth and ambiguity, is both a search for something and an escape from something else, and not even she seems completely sure what either something is.

Dana Stevens

Slate

Zhao collaborates with a major-name actor for the first time in Nomadland, guiding Frances McDormand to a remarkable performance of melancholy gravitas, so rigorously unmannered she's indistinguishable from the real-life nomads with whom she shares the screen.

David Rooney

The Hollywood Reporter

It’s extraordinary how a work like Nomadland can hold a mirror to society and refract back to the audience the light of their own lives.