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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of 245 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "A gorgeous meditation on America, ably shouldered by one of Joel Edgerton's very best performances, Train Dreams takes on mythic proportions while maintaining an intimate emotional delicacy." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 88 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Writing for RogerEbert.com, Brian Tallerico gave the film 4 stars out of 4, calling it "a meditation on the beauty of everyone and everything", and commenting that "the reason it's one of the best [films] of…
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60 of 325 · most liked firstI don’t think it will win Best Picture or Best Actor, but I really loved “Train Dreams” and Joel Edgerton is absolutely amazing in it. Also, love seeing Bryce Dessner, a member of one of my favorite bands (The National), getting a nomination for original song with Nick Cave.
positive · AI labelView post →Nick Cave's Train Dreams song was basically him watching the film and mumbling out whatever he saw on the screen. "Man with family... dog... river... tree falling... railroad... more trees..."
neutral · AI labelView post →Golden Globes Nominations — Best Actor in a Drama Film: • Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams • Dwayne Johnson, The Smashing Machine • Michael B Jordan, Sinners • Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent • Jeremy Allen White, Springsteen • Oscar Issac, Frankenstein See the full nominees list: bit.ly/GGNoms25
neutral · AI labelView post →I reviewed TRAIN DREAMS, a movie for idiots. Imagine a Cormac McCarthy novel where Judge Holden turns to the reader and says, "You have to mind your place in these woods, son. You never know what the trees are whisperin' when the wind rushes through 'em." www.patreon.com/posts/151343...
negative · AI labelView post →Composer Bryce Dessner performed his score from ‘TRAIN DREAMS’ with a live orchestra alongside the film last night in Hollywood.
neutral · AI labelView post →Train Dreams (i haven’t seen the movie but i do dream of working public infrastructure)
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s not going to win, but I implore you to watch ‘Train Dreams.’ It’s just a beautiful, beautiful movie.
positive · AI labelView post →The song from Train Dreams is very beautiful, and also, it sounds like it was written by Nick Cave while he was watching the movie, MST3K style.
neutral · AI labelView post →My god, “Train Dreams” is a beautiful film. Quiet, at times heartbreaking, but so, so lovely. It’s about connecting to the world and finding our place in it. A welcome couple hours of peace from the chaos of the moment.
positive · AI labelView post →Which film do you want to see win Best Cinematography at the Oscars this weekend? • Sinners • Train Dreams • One Battle After Another • Frankenstein • Marty Supreme See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie: “Train Dreams” (2025), directed by Clint Bentley
neutral · AI labelView post →Nominees for Best Actor in a Drama film at this year's #GoldenGlobes: Joel Edgerton - Train Dreams Oscar Isaac - Frankenstein Dwayne Johnson - The Smashing Machine Michael B. Jordan - Sinners Wagner Moura - The Secret Agent Jeremy Allen White - Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
neutral · AI labelView post →I wrote about the beautiful TRAIN DREAMS, and how one change from its source material turns the film into a timely argument against complicity, inaction, and ignoring crimes done to our neighbors, esp. when they look different from us. SPOILERS. @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/trai...
positive · AI labelView post →What a great year for film 📽️! A tough task to narrow it down, but here’s my Top 10 of 2025: April One Battle After Another It Was Just An Accident Sorry, Baby Frankenstein Train Dreams Sinners The Secret Agent Sentimental Value If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Letterboxd Link: boxd.it/BQx3A
positive · AI labelView post →While we are here, the tech award Sinners isn’t favored for that I most hope it wins is cinematography. What a lush, beautiful movie, with such lived in textures. One Battle (favored) and Train Dreams would be lovely winners too, but I would be voting Sinners.
positive · AI labelView post →Realizing now that I did not post this week's Historians At The Movies film on Blue Sky. So join us on Netflix this Sunday, February 1 at 8pm eastern to talk about the West in the early 20th century with TRAIN DREAMS. Keep #HATM growing by sharing! See you tomorrow! youtu.be/_Nk8TrBHOrA?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie selection is “Train Dreams” (2025). So beautiful
positive · AI labelView post →Having recently sobbed over the movie "Train Dreams" so much I actually thought I'd turned myself inside out, I now strongly believe movies should carry warnings for sex, violence, drug-use, defamatory language - and sadness: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
positive · AI labelView post →Train Dreams, a movie I watched on my TV during last year's Sundance, is the little movie that could, and I am very happy for those guys
positive · AI labelView post →How exquisite is too exquisite? The new film “Train Dreams” has a way of both dropping your jaw and raising an eyebrow. “You begin to wonder, at a certain point, if the film’s visual splendor has begun to outstrip its meaning,” @justincchang.bsky.social writes.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've seen all the best film noms except for F1, Train Dreams, The Secret Agent & Frankenstein, so I'll just artificially make up my opinions about those movies out of thin air... I've decided that I LOVED Train Dreams and was not that into The Secret Agent and Frankenstein, found F1 fun enough
positive · AI labelView post →Susie Cave and Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner and Mina Tindle at tonight's 98th Oscars. Cave and Dessner are nominated for Best Original Song for "Train Dreams" from Clint Bentley's film of the same name. [📷: Julian Hamilton, Mike Coppola/Getty Images]
neutral · AI labelView post →TRAIN DREAMS: the laugh-a-minute feel-good movie of the winter!
negative · AI labelView post →“At least there’s movie discussion on Twitter!”* *Bald Ann Dowd shitposted about Train Dreams and everybody spent the rest of the day arguing about whether people have the right to opinions
neutral · AI labelView post →Sometimes you watch a film that is so profound and beautiful that you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it. We watched "Train Dreams" last night, and it was truly remarkable. I hope you'll see it.
positive · AI labelView post →But Train Dreams.....what a film
positive · AI labelView post →Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner have written a brand new original song for Clint Bentley’s ‘TRAIN DREAMS’ starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones. (www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...)
neutral · AI labelView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 review of TRAIN DREAMS boxd.it/dmphbx More vibe than plot driven narrative; free-flowing, ethereal poem to man's progress (both literal & metaphorical) thru time. Gorgeously shot, observational, & anchored with natural performance by Edgerton. Subtle power sneaks up on you. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →Gorgeous gorgeous movie. Very Terrence Malick to me. Lovely, poetic voiceover and beautiful cinematography. Existential and heartbreaking. A masterpiece... intrigued to see what this director does next. #filmsky My ★★★★★ review of Train Dreams on @letterboxd: boxd.it/cuiP8n
positive · AI labelView post →I'm going a little nuts over here because I had no idea that Denis Johnson's immaculate novella Train Dreams has been adapted into a film that is apparently spectacular!!! Omg!!! www.vulture.com/article/sund...
positive · AI labelView post →Star Wars actors Joel Edgerton (Owen Lars) and Felicity Jones (Jyn Erso) star in the new drama TRAIN DREAMS, streaming this Friday on Netflix. Read our review of the new movie here: theholofiles.com/2025/11/18/r...
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #Letterboxd #filmsky Skinner's Dress Suit (1926) Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) Lifeboat (1944) Train Dreams (2025)
neutral · AI labelView post →Frankenstein was my favorite film of the year, just me personally. I’ve also said for months that I’d give Best Picture to Train Dreams. But I just watched Bugonia — and I’m damn-near speechless.
positive · AI labelView post →Spent yesterday morning rereading Denis Johnson's TRAIN DREAMS, before watching the new movie adaptation in the evening. A pretty perfect day spent with one of my favorite books.
positive · AI labelView post →TRAIN DREAMS You simply cannot make me dislike Joel Edgerton, no matter how mawkish and turgid the movie around him is. Some lovely shots of nature here, too.
neutral · AI labelView post →Train Dreams was my second favorite movie of 2025—shot *entirely* in Washington state, as beautiful as it’s ever looked on screen—and this wonderful essay from Riley gets at some of what I loved most about it.
positive · AI labelView post →#Oscars 🧵 11/11 Train Dreams (2025) dir. Clint Bentley 🎬 This quiet, emotional drama is exceedingly beautiful in terms of the cinematography, for which it has also received a nomination. Doubtful it will win Best Picture but it truly deserves its nomination all the same. #filmsky #cinema
positive · AI labelView post →Train Dreams is a lovely movie
positive · AI labelView post →Taika hosting a Q&A for friend Joel Edgerton’s new film Train Dreams last night
neutral · AI labelView post →Adapted from a novella by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams is very plainly one of the most beautiful films of 2025. You've got two weeks to see it in a theater, preferably in the Pacific Northwest, before it ends up on Netflix.
positive · AI labelView post →Congratulations to the Sundance Institute–supported projects recognized at the 41st Film Independent #SpiritAwards. 🏆 From “Train Dreams” and “Sorry, Baby” to other standout projects, these films reflect the original voices at the heart of independent cinema. Read more: sndnc.org/4cxsKvP
neutral · AI labelView post →Train Dreams, shot in the PNW and an adaptation of Idaho writer Denis Johnson's novel, received four Oscar nods. In @highcountrynews.org today: how the film was seen through the eyes of a modern logging crew laborer.
neutral · AI labelView post →#LookAndSee 297 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Train Dreams Nick Cave This is my favorite film of 2025. Although the filmmakers changed the ending from the source material the film haunts me in beautiful & profound ways. One is this gorgeous theme song by Nick Cave youtu.be/KibAjo3XXAc?...
positive · AI labelView post →Train Dreams the goat, my favourite movie of the year.
positive · AI labelView post →‘Train Dreams’ is quite moving and really beautifully shot, a quietly lovely film. I almost wrote ‘lovely little film’ but it isn’t small, really, it encompasses too much. Recommended.
positive · AI labelView post →Train Dreams is most beautiful film I've seen in a long time.
positive · AI labelView post →If Train Dreams is my last TIFF movie ever, which looks increasingly possible, that would be kinda perfect actually.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching TRAIN DREAMS (2025). Director: Clint Bentley. Joel Edgerton, Kerry Condon. Meditation on life, beauty, & heartbreak in the rapidly changing America of the early 20th century. Nominated for 4 Oscars, including Best Picture. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Please ignore my slightly wonky photography and enjoy this poster of @bilgeebiri.bsky.social's review of TRAIN DREAMS currently on display in the Curzon Bloomsbury, which is indeed still showing Train Dreams. I would die of happiness if I was ever quoted in a movie trailer much less this!
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Two new releases I liked, Zootopia 2 and Train Dreams. A seasonal Charlie Brown and Flight Risk, the worst movie of the year (Running Man and The Strangers Chapter 2 are off the hook). It doesn’t even meet the professional standards you expect even from bad movies
positive · AI labelView post →1. BUGONIA 2. MARTY SUPREME 3. ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 4. THE SECRET AGENT 5. HAMNET 6. SINNERS 7. SENTIMENTAL VALUE 8. TRAIN DREAMS ——The Good Movie Line—— 9. FRANKENSTEIN 10. F1
neutral · AI labelView post →just caught Train Dreams again, playing on 35mm. beautiful movie. very lovely print.
positive · AI labelView post →TRAIN DREAMS really is a beautifully made piece of cinema. And if you’ve read the book, it’s fascinating how they left some things in and other things out to ultimately leave you with a very different mood. #HATM slate.com/culture/2025...
positive · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky #MovieSky Happiness (1998) The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987) Train Dreams (2025) Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025)
neutral · AI labelView post →I had the immense privilege of interviewing writer-director Clint Bentley and star Joel Edgerton about my favorite film of the year, Train Dreams. Read it on @letterboxd.social Journal here: boxd.it/2Po
neutral · AI labelView post →I just said yes to a piece that's quite possibly the finest piece of writing I have or will ever publish. If Hollywood makes a lush, gorgeous, late-19th-century film, a la Train Dreams, based on this short story that'll be in Issue 23, I will not be surprised. HOLY EFFING SHIT.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last year I saw my favorite movie of 2024 with days left in the year: The Girl With The Needle. Well I repeated the feat this year seeing my favorite movie of 2025 just yesterday: Train Dreams. Five bags of popcorn on both
positive · AI labelView post →It’s #LetterboxdFriday once again so here is my #LastFourWatched. Started the week with some K-Pop, found Train Dreams and F1: The Movie fine but not neither really grabbed me. A rewatch of Marty Supreme to make everything better and to end the week
neutral · AI labelView post →Loved the movie, "Train Dreams," about a loggers' life in the PNW. I take walks in Tryon Creek State Park, by my home, regular "nature baths." The old growth was logged 100 years ago by Chinese logging crews. Cedar stumps still stand like ancient ruins, like this one:
positive · AI labelView post →My 2026 movie watchlist thread. Please enjoy and share your feelings/thoughts! 1. TRAIN DREAMS (2025) Director: Clint Bentley Writers: Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
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