Train Dreams is not only the best feature of 2025, it’s one of the decade’s great American films: a stirring tribute to this country and the anonymous men and women who built it; a paean to a fading landscape and a rugged, natural way of life; an elegy about the immediacy and eternity of grief; and a heartbreaking—and yet also hopeful—portrait of impermanence and the cinema’s ability to memorialize that which doesn’t last.
Jockeydirector Clint Bentley’s sophomore effort, which hits Netflix Nov. 21, is a profound story of an ordinary man—his joys and sorrows, hopes and dreams, hardships and grace—and immediately marks the filmmaker as an artist of tremendous precision, elegance, and acuity.
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