Jeff Nichols is my favorite director right now. I can’t think of another director whose movies I look forward to quite like his.

At the time of this writing I’m 39, almost 40, and Jeff Nichols is right around my age. His heartfelt stories resonate with me because he looks at a big, complicated picture and distills it to an elegant concept. In this case, love.

Many socially conscious filmmakers, are subtly (or not so subtly) wagging a finger at a segment of the population with whom they have antipathy toward. Even with his very first movie, Shotgun Stories