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Director-writer Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, with cowriter Greg Kwedar, arrives on Netflix this weekend after a two-week theatrical run. With a well-deserved 95% critical score at Rotten Tomatoes, this heartbreaking and inspiring Oscar contender says more than most other contenders by saying less but feeling more. Olive Steverding and Joel Edgerton star in “Train Dreams.” Source: Netflix Train Dreams – The Review Bentley and Kwedar teamed on 2023’s spectacular Sing Sing, with Kwedar in the director’s chair, a film that should’ve gotten more Oscar love. The pair reunite for what is sure to be another Oscar nominated production with this acclaimed adaptation of Denis Johnson’s Pulitzer-nominated novella Train Dreams. A few other releases, including One Battle After Another (read my review here), Sinners (which expanded into IMAX and then got a re-release to remind everyone why it’s an inevitable Oscar nominee), Wicked: For Good (read my review here), Frankenstein (also from Netflix), and upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash also look like shoo-ins, ForbesReview: ‘One Battle After Another’ Enters The Oscar Race As Mixed BagBy Mark Hughes I’m going to ask in advance for your patience, because Train Dreams is a film I don’t wish to give a simplified or straightforward review, because that’s not the sort of film it is and not how I reacted to it. I can’t review it without diving into the existential ideas and my own reactions to them. For those seeking the short version of a review, Train Dreams is gorgeously photographed and expertly directed, brilliantly acted, with moments and themes that say with you long after the story ends. I will revisit it again in the future, more than once, and I expect each time I’ll come away with some new revelation or feeling. Now, since I want to speak at length about the…

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