Updated Feb 20, 2026
#TrainDreams is the kind of movie that the general public rolls their eyes at as "boring" but is so full of life & ideas & beauty that I wish it could have gone on forever. What the term "Best Picture" was coined for.
Congratulations to TRAIN DREAMS on their 3 Film Independent Spirit Awards for Best Feature, Best Director - Clint Bentley, and Best Cinematography - Adolpho Veloso! 🚂
Yeah, that's about it, as they whistle a fake-Dylan tune, courtesy #TrainDreams *a.k.a. "The Brutalist, Part Deux") @LateNight_Knapp
130 years ago…when ethical American hipsters wandered the Pacific Northwest.
NEW REVIEW—As gorgeous as #TrainDreams is, it rubbed me the wrong way. Writer @supergavigator nicely explains what I was feeling in our latest Mediaversity review of #Oscar #BestPicture nominees: mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews/2…
The Train Dreams director for Blood Runs Coal? Director of my favorite 2025 film?? Cilltwt we’re WINNING 👍🥰🤗💃🏻
Cillian Murphy upcoming projects. 🎬 ▪️‘PEAKY BLINDERS: THE IMMORTAL MAN’ ▪️‘28 YEARS LATER - PART 3’ ▪️Damien Chazelle upcoming untitled film ▪️‘BLOOD RUNS COAL’ dir. Clint Bentley
Poor Clint Bentley did his damndest to imitate Terence Malick but all the #Oscars could do was nominate #TrainDreams as one of 10 decline-of-America-and-the-West films. Read why:
Dud of the Week: The anti-American nihilism of the Oscar-nominated "Train Dreams" is perfect for the political delusions of these times. Clint Bentley's demoralized nostalgia is pictorial, cynical and phony. nationalreview.com/2026/02/the-bo… #TrainDreams
