The Rider

[yeehaws, but sadly]

Lucy

The rare film not about following your dreams, but coming to peace with letting them go

Jeva Lange

I am crying in Cowboy

#1 gizmo fan

Boasts the best cinematography of the year thus far and a quietly beautiful authenticity that allows the story to resonate. Zhao embraces the landscape and her main character’s place in it, drawing on the central contradiction constantly weighing him down: namely, the idea…

Kevin Y

The scene where Brady trains a horse is the turning point of the film into something i was enjoying watching. Brady’s giant smile when he’s with a recovering Lane is one of the most heartwarming shots of the entire year, and the scene that follows that one is one of the…

demi adejuyigbe

What I did was headbanging. I had given up drinking. I had given up cutting. I was able to use marijuana every day and that helped. I worked at the library. I had super-short hair. I had a goatee. I wore pink shirts and floral ties. I checked people's books out. I put books…

nathaxnne [goodbye <3]

when mitski told us to be the cowboy i didn't think that would involve so much crying

lauren

I just want to say that Chloé Zao's eye for landscape and sensitivity to storytelling utterly surprised me. I also love that she chose to work with a cast of non-professional actors who play themselves to give us a glimpse of the lives of the people who live in the corners…

Reznikov🔥

absolutely magnificent. my film of the year thus far

David Sims