Reichardt is one of the few directors who truly knows how to use Williams, and the resulting portrait is detailed, deep, and compassionate.

| Aug 26, 2024

The movie is candid about the frustrations and resentments within the insular art community – frenemies Lizzy and Jo’s perfectly played rivalry is the central comic relationship – but also art-making as a spiritual vocation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2024

The movie does not make fun of the artist characters but is as earnest as they are. The film is about people’s process and has an underlying cautionary moral to not judge people based on how we perceive them.

| Jun 2, 2024

The movie is slow-paced, and nothing much happens on screen, but if someone wants to see a bond blossom between two completely different women in the most tangible of ways, this is their movie.

| Apr 17, 2024

To spend a week with Lizzy is to spend a week filled with contradictions, doubt, stress, conflict, immense creativity — and immense love.

| Feb 13, 2024

[The film] shines not in the attentive moments where Lizzy fine-tunes her sculptures, but rather when it shows how the conditions of creative labour can often turn us off from wanting to create.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2024

Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up is the first of her uniformly excellent films to truly resonate with me.

| Jan 4, 2024

Even if the narrative feels meandering and a bit aimless, filmmaker Kelly Reichardt and actor Michelle Williams are terrific at working together to capture knowing details on-screen. And the wry tone of this quirky movie makes it worth a look.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 19, 2023

The gentle touch is firm, and somehow Showing Up is about the world today, even if its reach looks small.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 15, 2023

There’s been no better movie to encapsulate the year, and no better movie, period, than Kelly Reichardt’s matchless Showing Up, which is all about making art in a world that also requires you to make money.

| Dec 9, 2023

As much as Showing Up is a personality study, it is also an astonishingly lived-in depiction of a world whose inhabitants are devoted to creating. Anyone familiar with an art school environment will find the film almost a documentary experience.

| Original Score: B | Dec 6, 2023

It is easy to spot a parallel with Reichardt’s own career, making the shoestring films that have established her as a major American filmmaker while earning her living teaching college students. It’s all about showing up, on all fronts.

| Oct 25, 2023

Just give that pigeon the Oscar now

| Sep 6, 2023

... It’s delicate and unassuming, and when it eventually comes together, it packs a subtle emotional punch – the way art you sometimes can’t explain often does.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2023

Those viewers who are open to Reichardt’s contemplative style might just find that Showing Up’s loving focus on the unsensational work of art-making reflects warmly onto the film itself.

| Aug 18, 2023

Here's a movie by a singular artist about a singular artist that is so full of truths known only by artists who have lived them that it is going to be beloved by those artists. ... I laughed out loud at its wit and wisdom even as I felt like crying.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 16, 2023

Showing Up distills artmaking into a monotonous activity without the rose-colored glasses of romanticizing the process, but without the process, what do we have? Art is the process. It’s the time, effort, and love that go into creation.

| Jul 25, 2023

I didn't hate it, I didnt love it, I thought it was fine! Michelle Williams is great though!

| Original Score: C | Jul 22, 2023

Not only is Showing Up the best movie of the year, it’s arguably the one most in need of rescue. That’s your cue, friends.

| Jul 21, 2023

It reminds us that art is a real thing that real people do, not some mysterious sorcery. Even if it is a little bit magical.

| Jul 20, 2023