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

With the third act, the power of Reichardt's elliptical approach becomes apparent.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 19, 2017

This is not a film of big revelations or ready-made solutions. It's gentle and finely executed storytelling about ordinary people longing for connection and meaning as they face the challenges of another day.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2017

The three stories, which very loosely overlap, are handled in a minimalist yet subtly emotional manner and this calm, understated film is a delight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2017

Certain Women's whispers are more penetrating than most film's shouts.

| Mar 6, 2017

Reichardt more than ever feels like a director who is using cinema in a way that is wonderfully at odds with our expectations for the medium.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 5, 2017

In a movie characterised by delicate, precise movements from a formidable ensemble, it is soulful Gladstone - whose ancestors include both William Gladstone and treaty chief Red Crow - who leaves the most indelible impression.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2017

Its rhythms and performances are built to last. If you don't seek it out now, it'll catch you later.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2017

Kelly Reichardt elicits every nuance from her small-town characters and leaves the viewer on the verge of reading their minds.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2017

If the characters here are often sparing with their words, or even withholding, the visuals speak volumes.

| Mar 2, 2017

This is an undemonstrative picture, richer in detail than incident, and ever-so-slightly wholegrain and dull.

| Mar 2, 2017

Without seeking to push a one-size-fits-all philosophy, Certain Women coalesces magically and suggests many - in the end, it's about things missing, all the more acutely missed when you briefly think you've found them.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 2, 2017

It is a movie that declines to detonate the traditional climactic revelation or catharsis that pulls everything together, and some might find it frustrating. I found it entirely absorbing. You must take time to immerse yourself in its quiet mystery.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2017

The movie is faithful to everything real.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 2, 2017

Watching the film, you feel a depth of understanding and sympathy for the characters that simply wouldn't be there in a more conventional, plot-driven movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2017

It's a heartbreaker, pure and simple.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 1, 2017

A languid, leisurely paced drama. Not much happens, but Reichardt's light touch and the performances of the leads make it soar.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 2017

As with all of Reichardt's films, the gems are in the smallest moments -- the half smiles, the non-reactions and the silences between two people barely connecting.

| Dec 30, 2016

Powerful, focused, nervy, lean. Certain Women is a work of art produced by a director in full control of her material. It leaves you reeling.

| Dec 1, 2016

For the most part, these narratives lack the kind of tension between character and setting that have made Reichardt's quiet, modest, measured films so compelling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 3, 2016