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

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

[Reichardt and Williams's] shorthand creates its own universe, and it's as insular as the world they're depicting. Outsiders will likely feel like they're showing up without an invite.

| Original Score: C | Apr 28, 2023

The comedy is often as dry as an untouched paintbrush.

| Apr 22, 2023

Like Lizzy’s sculptures, there’s a wounded tactility at work here—in miniature, even. What you get out of it will depend on your patience for such thoughtful if prickly work.

| Apr 21, 2023

The film is a testament to my favorite kind of character, the ones who go about their lives in a one-foot-in-front-of-the-other manner.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 17, 2023

Soulful and moving.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2023

It is a serene, pulse-lowering charmer.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 14, 2023

Reichardt likes to watch, and the new movie is at its most serene when it parks the camera next to a student working on a painting or a pot or an installation or a dance and just lets the footage run.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 14, 2023

Showing Up’s unassuming canvas carries the weight of creation -- its difficulty and necessity in atomized times -- and though it never preaches, Reichardt maintains there’s worth to the work, even if the precarity never disappears.

| Apr 13, 2023

This is the cinematic equivalent of a great still life of a bowl of fruit: The technique is undeniable, but it's just a bowl of fruit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 13, 2023

What initially seems to be a slice-of-life drama eventually reveals itself as a paean to the difficulties, and rewards, of making art.

| Apr 13, 2023

Reichardt reflects an abiding respect for artists and their freedom to explore and process while Williams inhabits the soul of a creative being in every frame and every second.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 12, 2023

Kelly Reichardt... turns her thoughtful attention to the act of creation itself, rendering both its transcendence and mundanity with equal curiosity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 12, 2023

Audiences need to meet it halfway, with their eyes, minds and emotions open. Those that do will have a fulfilling and memorable experience.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 10, 2023

Once you get into the mood that it'll never explode into anything revelatory, it's genial enough.

| Apr 7, 2023

Brilliantly nuanced and meticulously observed.

| Apr 7, 2023

That this moody, woozy character study falls closer to the “masterpiece” side of the fence isn’t a surprise, considering it comes from Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams, one of the best filmmaker-actor duos of the last quarter century.

| Apr 7, 2023

The on-the-surface modesty of Showing Up is a kind of sorcery. It’s in the days afterward, when you’ve left its spell and gone back to the world, that its essence is more likely to take shape...

| Apr 7, 2023

There's something a little too neat about the structure of "Showing Up" ... but the piercing specificity of Reichardt's vision, and her insights into the dynamics of an art scene like the one in Portland, are spot on.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 7, 2023