"Clint Bentley's powerful, melancholy drama - for my money the best film of the year - tells the life story of one man and remains intently focused on its mostly passive central character throughout. So much of the picture plays out on Edgerton's face that by the end, this actor, who has been working pretty much nonstop for the past quarter of a century, feels inseparable from this character."
"The Australian actor got his big break playing Owen Lars, the nascent Uncle Owen of the Star Wars series, in Attack of the Clones; he showed up in King Arthur (not that one, the other one) and Exodus: Gods and Kings (for which he wound up in the middle of a casting controversy) and The Great Gatsby and Smokin' Aces; I could have sworn he was in Black Hawk Down but no, turns out he was in Zero Dark Thirty."
Joel Edgerton earns career-best reviews for Train Dreams, a powerful, melancholy drama by Clint Bentley. The film tells the life story of one man and remains intently focused on a mostly passive central character, with much of the narrative conveyed through Edgerton's facial performance. Edgerton has worked continuously for about twenty-five years across major films including Attack of the Clones, King Arthur, Exodus: Gods and Kings, The Great Gatsby, Smokin' Aces, and Zero Dark Thirty. He has frequently occupied a specific range as a quiet, stony performer who reads as sturdy or immovable, and he has excelled as a restrained foil to more flamboyant co-stars.
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