Certain Women is a Kelly Reichardt film through and through. Again, her style isn’t for everyone, but if you fall into her rhythm, there’s some proactive and cinematic gold here...

| Original Score: A | Aug 19, 2024

Dealing with desire and its array of repercussions, the segment makes space for the role of class and aspiration in shaping or halting possible connection, without being so bold as to make any declarations of their definite effect.

| Mar 3, 2023

Reichardt’s films take place in an atmosphere of heightened quiet, and here she reaches a new level of concentration.

| Jan 18, 2023

The film feels like a singular arrangement under Reichardt's direction; her consistency of tone and theme separates into three stanzas, each a necessary component in a larger structure.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 21, 2022

A Montana-set meditation that brings to mind Thoreau's "lives of quiet desperation."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2021

While the first and third segments of this film are quite good -- the third in particular -- the middle section is such a boring slog that it drags the whole film down.

| Original Score: B | Aug 10, 2021

The film relies upon an accumulation of effect - a pile-up of character and place specifics that inform and feed off one another until you're very nearly swept up with emotion.

| Jul 6, 2021

...the rugged imagery and tense relationships combine to create a sense of hardship, in this case more directly psychic than economic.

| Feb 22, 2021

Like crossing paths with strangers in real life, I left my interactions with these women mulling over small details and wondering what remained unsaid.

| Feb 12, 2021

At the center of Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women is the heart and soul of women all over the world.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 3, 2021

The resulting quietude and honesty doesn't detract from the emotionality of the film; on the contrary, it lends a realism that hits home all the harder.

| Jan 4, 2021

[Reichardt's] dedicated naturalism allows her audience the freedom to feel as freely and deeply as she does about her characters and their lives.

| Aug 13, 2020

Perfectly tuned for its quietude imbued in loneliness and longing, Certain Women is certainly one of her finest films to date...

| Jul 17, 2020

Certain Women never detaches from Reichardt's personal aesthetic to work as good drama. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 27, 2020

Reichardt uses the expansive, empty Northwestern landscape to powerful effect in Certain Women, and by the time all is said and done, you can't help but feel both a little more lonely and a little more of a kindred spirit with these characters.

| Apr 28, 2020

Observant, heartfelt, and incredibly eloquent, Reichardt's latest unfolds with poetic finesse, building to a powerful crescendo of sublimated emotion.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 2, 2019

What's particularly great, besides the film's uncanny ability to replicate the sensation of reading a heady, well-collected, complementary collection of short stories, is the tactful feminism deployed in casual asides and male absence.

| Original Score: A | Jun 25, 2019

Earthy, real, and rich despite its understated narratives, Certain Women will reward patient cinemagoers with its delicate detail.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2019

There's no arguing that Certain Women has moments of incredible power. But the film itself can be greatly uneven.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 27, 2018

Reichardt, in addition to the slow and methodical storytelling, continues to use the landscape to tremendous effect, the cinematography is gorgeous and the location plays a great role in underscoring every scene.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 22, 2018