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By Isabel Stevens (44) for Sight and Sound (827) on 10 Jan 2018

The occasional lyrical music that over-pounds the film's mournful tone. Nevertheless, it's a remarkable achievement from both Zhao and all her actors…

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By Shelagh Rowan-Legg (77) for ScreenAnarchy (469) on 10 Jan 2018

The Rider confirms Zhao as one of the great new American directors, looking at the lives of people too often ignored in cinema, and in a way…

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By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 01 Nov 2017

As for The Rider, its naturally occurring mood is one of elegiac grandeur…

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By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 01 Nov 2017

Chloé Zhao delivers a tremendous sophomore feature…

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By Chloe Walker (42) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 25 Oct 2017

The Rider is a small film of great beauty and great resonance…

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By Stephanie Archer (37) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 10 Oct 2017

While The Rider is a compelling story, the tone of the film across the board tends to remain flat - and at times boring…

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By April Wolfe (199) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 04 Oct 2017

It's difficult to describe the immense weight that descends upon you when you realize you're seeing real Indian reservation cowboys moving…

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By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 20 Sep 2017

The Rider is a thing of exquisite beauty…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 06 Sep 2017

Casting non-actors as versions of themselves - [Brady] Jandreau acts opposite his real father and sister - [Chloé] Zhao situates the story…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 08 Jun 2017

For beautiful, intimate moments, few films at Cannes this year were in the same league as The Rider…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 06 Jun 2017

In telling the story of a disappearing slice of America, Zhao has created a portrait of resilience, and the bonds that last even after the…

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By Bradley Warren (32) for The Playlist (3,871) on 31 May 2017

Focusing on the indigenous community of the Pine Ridge reservation, Zhao reimagines the entrenched masculine persona of the cowboy…

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By Elena Lazic (92) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 25 May 2017

Heavy-hearted cowboys, wild horses and broken dreams: The Rider is a great film about what it means to be a man…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 25 May 2017

The Rider is a rare gem, a small, acutely observed portrait of a few lives on what used to be the frontier but is now a desolate backwater,…

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By Ed Frankl (41) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 25 May 2017

Zhao’s combination of the visual palette of Terrence Malick, the social backbone of Kelly Reichardt, and the spontaneity of John Cassavetes…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 25 May 2017

This is a movie using non-professionals playing versions of themselves, and under Zhao’s patient, unintrusive directorial eye they appear…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 25 May 2017

To say the performances are authentic is clearly stating the point, but the Blackburn family opens up to give an easily intimate portrait of…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 25 May 2017

Even as harder realities hit home, The Rider is in complete sympathy with its protagonist’s wild, wistful yen…

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By Jo-Anne Titmarsh (79) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 22 May 2017

While this is a familiar theme that viewers have watched countless times, the way Zhao has scripted and directed The Rider makes it something new…

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