Updated Mar 17, 2026
Train Dreams (2025): what the hell do you all see in this astonishingly poor slice of synthetic wonderment
#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.
RW: #TrainDreams wasn’t a big fan on first watch on my TV so wanted to give it another chance on the big screen.
Regardless of whether Train Dreams takes home any #Oscars today, this will forever remain a high point of 2025 for me. I really connected with this movie & this story. I’m glad it got a Best Picture nomination. We need more raw films like this- one of ‘25’s best without question.
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
