In its delicate, poignant account of its travellers’ broken lives, Nomadland has a tenderness that you simply don’t find in most mainstream Hollywood filmmaking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2025

With Nomadland, Chloé Zhao completes a trilogy of sorts that offers an authentic and empathetic portrait of the dispossessed of the American West.

| Jul 29, 2024

Chloé Zhao and Frances McDormand combine to deliver a stirring commentary on the economy today, that bristles with bravery.

| Jul 18, 2024

Anchored by a towering performance by Frances McDormand, this is one of the best films of the year and an incredible time capsule of a defining moment in American history.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 18, 2024

Cinema peaked when Frances McDormand went in that five-gallon bucket.

| Jul 16, 2024

Zhao was made to make this movie, and McDormand was made to play Fran. The combination of these two powerful women has culminated in a modern masterpiece.

| Apr 23, 2024

Ultimately, it’s not hard to connect with everything you see on screen because you can understand every character like they were someone you know.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 4, 2024

This is truly her movie and she carries it on her shoulders without a single false note.

| Feb 23, 2024

An emotionally rich, painfully relevant film about the waning days of the American Dream.

| Feb 13, 2024

Zhao is a master at capturing people and their stories in such an authentic way that is usually water-downed in movies.

| Aug 30, 2023

One of the great pleasures of Nomadland is the consistently shrewd and perceptive manner in which Fern’s hidden depths and flinty pragmatics defy expectations

| Jul 28, 2023

Nomadland is a sobering tale of survival within the wake of the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression.

| Jul 24, 2023

Nomadland offers a contemplative, enlightening, touching story about a nomad's life, starring real-life people that make this film much more special. Gorgeous cinematography and a lovely score tremendously elevate the movie.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 24, 2023

Joshua James Richards’ masterful cinematography shines in this intimate film, which transcends the portrayal of the bleak nomad lifestyle and instead delves into a captivating character study.

| Jun 27, 2023

Zhao’s stunning, masterful work in Nomadland looks to be rewarded as one of the most unique and inspired choices by the Academy in this category...

| May 2, 2023

Members of the supporting cast are real-life nomads playing fictionalized versions of themselves. See this extraordinary piece of filmmaking...

| Mar 31, 2023

Zhao’s follow-up to the brilliant The Rider hits every single mark dead center. It is an odyssey of real-life people symbolized in one person, encapsulated in Frances McDormand’s best performance since Fargo.

| Mar 6, 2023

Nomadland revels in stark realism, and the real people that are used really add to the atmosphere and overall feel of the film. The story ultimately becomes less interesting as it moves along...

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jan 22, 2023

Between non-fiction and non-documentary, Nomadland plays with the narrative shortcomings to dazzle us instead through contemplation... [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 18, 2022

Remarkably mindful, stoic, and just so beautiful.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 11, 2022