Nebraska deserves to be among the best on any list

I've really like Alexander payne's movies over the years and what a great one we have this year - Nebraska, w excellent script by bob Nelson - first time Payne hasn't worked from a book? - and a stunning lead performance from Bruce dean. It's a father son road trip buddy movie but w many variations on the genre and a style and mood of its own - shot in wide angle bw which makes these small towns of the western plains hauntingly beautiful and also dead, frightening - as in the great scene in the tiny newspaper office  clearly a dying enterprise. There are no young people in this movie which makes us feel by their absence the these towns are relics doomed. All this said but it's by no means a depressing film - has some amazingly funny minimalist dialog esp the  brother and cousins watching tv and engaging in desultory conversation mostly about cars. And it's also a v warm filme even if anything too sentimental - about a devoted son and his struggle to win the love or at least the attention of his irascible dad. Deserves to be among the years best on every list.