<em>The Rider</em> Is the Best Film of 2018 So Far
Chloé Zhao’s second movie is an astonishingly confident portrayal of life among rodeo cowboys in South Dakota’s Sioux community.
Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau), the protagonist of , was a rodeo cowboy until a few months ago, when he fell off a bucking horse and suffered a traumatic head injury. With a metal plate in his head and doctor’s orders never to return to the saddle, Brady mostly finds himself wandering around South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation (where he lives with his father and sister) with little to do. In the cruelest irony, the brain damage has given rise to a strange symptom: One of Brady’s hands sometimes locks into a
