Sasquatch Movie Minute - TRANSCRIPTS of video reviews

#1: Train Dreams
Ranking of the 10 Best Picture Nominees for 2026 Oscars

I’m Trevor with the Sasquatch Movie Minute and we are running down my ranking of the 10 nominees for Oscars BEST PICTURE 2025.

#1 is TRAIN DREAMS, directed by Clint Bentley, starring Joel Edgerton.

This tender deeply-emotional film is about a simple man, a logger named Robert, in the early 1900s, trying to make sense of the world rushing around him. This movie stuck with me for days, it has been a long time since anything affected me this deeply. The episodic scenes do move slowly, but the culmination of these details about Robert’s life, how this ‘manly’ character is just confused and bewildered by the awfulness around him is timely and exquisitely moving.

Best Scene. The finale, when a character tells Robert to ‘Hold on to something,’ and the sequence that unfolds is nothing short of stunning. Revelation and acceptance rush over Robert and us, diving, mixing, twirling into a tapestry of everything we have experienced. And in the end, in the gargantuan complexity of all our moments, the simple truism that rings loud and clear is that line, that shout, that defiance to the abyss, to hold on to something.

Performance. I’m not the biggest fan of Joel Edgerton, but he does subtle lovely work here. But there is a side character played by William H. Macy, whose small little arc broke my heart. He is silly and funny, yet the filmmakers do a good job showing you that even though he is small, he had his own part of the story, his own part of the world that is no less vital than Roberts.

The aching humanity of this film, please see it.