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Drums Along the Mohawk
1939 · Drama · History
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The extraordinary story of an ordinary life.
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
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Brent Marchant
November 27, 2025
While in our youth, as we struggled to understand the puzzling nature of life, many of us likely heard our elders say, “You’ll understand someday when you get older,” advice that we probably tucked away in good faith for future reference. But how many of us actually came upon that promised understanding when we grew into adulthood? Chances are, many of us patiently awaited the arrival of such insights only to discove…
Read the full review on TMDBManuel São Bento
December 4, 2025
I had high expectations going into TRAIN DREAMS, largely due to the heartwarming reception it received from friends and peers in the industry, along with some awards buzz. The film embraces 'slow cinema' at its most contemplative and dreamy, prioritizing mood and texture over a conventional plot. I'm a sucker for natural cinematography, and here the viewers are treated to pure visual cinema, capitalizing on the real…
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The Fixate & Binge Podcast, w/ Joe Curdy
July 29, 2026
I sat in stunned silence when the film ended -- a silence engendered by the intoxicating poetry of this wonderful film that had me thinking of Whitman's ***Leaves of Grass*** and selected writings from Shakespeare. "All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity" -- taken as an elegiac meditation on the meaning of death seems to encapsulate the main themes of writer/director Clint Bentley's **TRAIN DREAM…
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CinemaSerf
August 1, 2026
This is one of these films that sort of washes over you, but it leaves quite an effect afterwards. There's hardly any dialogue of note as we follow a few years in the life of labourer "Robert" (Joel Edgerton) as he works wherever he can for $4 a day before returning home to his wife "Gladys" (Felicity Jones) and their baby daughter. Graduating from lumberjacking to railway working, he hopes to soon be able to afford…
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