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    After Golden Globe wins for 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and 'Green Book,' awards season can only improve … right?

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Jan 08, 2019 5 minutes

    A wonderful movie finally got its due this weekend, drawing top honors from an organization consisting of some of the country's leading entertainment journalists. I am speaking, of course, about "The Rider," Chloe Zhao's quietly heartbreaking portrait of a fallen Lakota cowboy reconsidering his dreams of rodeo stardom, which on Saturday was named the best picture of 2018 by the National Society of Film Critics.

    I say this neither modestly nor impartially, being both the society's chair and an ardent admirer of "The Rider," which first screened at Cannes in 2017 and was released in April by Sony Pictures Classics. If its reach has been modest (earning just over $2.4 million at the U.S. box office), its staying power has been extraordinary. An achingly beautiful weave of narrative and documentary, Zhao's movie was the surprise winner at November's Gotham Independent Film Awards, one of the first events of the

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