Michelle Williams is now the only Dawson's Creek cast member with a chat-worthy film career.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 16, 2011

Imagine a collaboration between John Ford and Wallace Stevens and you might get a sense of what Kelly Reichardt pulls off here: a sincere re-creation of the pioneer experience, brought to life through careful, often unexpected detail.

| May 27, 2011

Greatly enhanced by the performances of Michelle Williams and Bruce Greenwood, director Kelly Reichardt's film quietly becomes engrossing - it almost sneaks up on you.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 26, 2011

A mesmerizing cinematic journey that is often as arduous and spare as the lives of its hard-bitten protagonists.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 20, 2011

This is the sort of film critics love to praise because the filmmaker has done good work before; and well, there must be something there. Well, there's not.

| Original Score: D | May 13, 2011

Thanks to brilliant directorial decisions matched by a cast that was clearly inspired by this unique effort, this will surely be one of the most memorable films of 2011.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 13, 2011

A film ponderously slow in pace yet kinetically charged with insight; starkly realistic yet allegorical too; psychologically astute yet politically resonant.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 13, 2011

Those with the courage to explore uncharted territory will be rewarded with a rough gem of a movie.

| May 13, 2011

"Meek's Cutoff" is more an experience than a story.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 12, 2011

If you allow its windswept silences to work on you, "Meek's Cutoff" gathers its own snakelike sense of momentum...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 12, 2011

It's the anti-western western, a story stripped of Zane Gray romance, sagebrush and mythic heroes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2011

This revisionist Western -- intellectually, aesthetically, and narratively absorbing -- rattles to the bone, but never quite rends the heart.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 6, 2011

Boring.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 5, 2011

Vast and mysterious, the American West of Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond's "Meek's Cutoff" is not quite like any other landscape.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 5, 2011

The cinematography, by Chris Blauvelt, captures the rugged landscapes and rainless skies with a homespun elegance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 5, 2011

Told largely in long shot, it's a painfully, beautifully slow film, which is understandable given the time, place, and situation.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 5, 2011

Williams also starred in Reichardt's last, and best, film, Wendy and Lucy, and she clearly has a special affinity for the director, for whom she shows off her subtlest shades.

| Original Score: B | Apr 23, 2011

Amounts to a master class in the power of observation.

| Apr 22, 2011

Reichardt has stripped "Meek's" down to bare essentials and careful emotions. The cast captures that quality beautifully - like the water that is running out, everything is conserved.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2011

Reichardt trusts her audience, encourages her viewers to feel comfortable in the stillness and the quiet, and to draw their own conclusions from an ending that's as profound as it is enigmatic.

Full Review | Apr 20, 2011