"Train Dreams"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture For this week's third podcast review, Dan Bayer, Megan Lachinski, and Will Mavity join me to review and discuss the latest film from Clint Bentley, "Train Dreams," starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Clifton Collins Jr., Kerry Condon, and William H. Macy. Based on the 2011 novella of the same name by Denis Johnson, and co-written with fellow Academy Award-nominee Greg Kwedar, the duo are back following "Sing Sing" last year with another beloved independent film that has had passionate supporters ever since it premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival to universal acclaim. Please tune in as we discuss the themes, Joel Edgerton's leading performance, the cinematography, Bentley's direction, its awards season prospects, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of Train Dreams.
0:05.9	World's an old place.
0:08.5	Probably nothing that hasn't seen by now.
0:15.8	I don't know where the years go.
0:23.6	I feel I do.
0:29.6	It's all going by so fast.
0:33.6	Bye back.
0:34.6	Bye-bye.
0:35.6	This world is intricately stitched together, boys.
0:42.3	Every thread we pull, we know not how it affects the design of things.
0:48.3	Yeah. What do you do?
0:50.3	There must be something for us to learn from that.
0:57.9	All right, everybody, you were just listening to the trailer for Train Dreams, and the story is as follows.
1:03.6	Robert Grainer lives all of his years in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, working on the land helping to create a new world at the turn of
1:12.3	the 20th century.
1:13.9	The film is starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Clifton Collins Jr., Carrie Condon
1:19.7	and William H. Macy.
1:21.1	It is written and directed by Clint Bentley and co-written by Greg Quedar.
1:25.0	Here to join me today for this spoiler-filled podcast review.
1:28.6	I have Megalachinsky.
1:30.9	Hi, everyone.
1:32.1	Dan Baer.
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