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While I felt that I have watched better social dramas than Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, I don’t think I’ve felt the grief of child loss more deeply than with her latest movie Hamnet (In The Bedroom gets close though). Spoiler alert: The most genius aspect of the movie has to be the resurrection of the child through an adult stage actor. When he appeared, the intention was immediately apparent, and I think it made me almost as ‘happy’ as the mother. I felt what she must have felt and I don’t think I’ve ever experience something similar with a movie before. The last time I was equally impressed with the direction of a movie was with The Power Of The Dog, so nobody can accuse me of having something against female directors.