In happy sum, Reichardt is one more of the current American directors, most of them still young, who are endowing our film world with pleasure and hope.

| Mar 27, 2015

I expect there will be more stories like Wendy and Lucy's in the coming months and years. The wonder will be if they articulate their compassion and distress with such unforced eloquence.

| Mar 27, 2015

The climax is a heartbreaker, and in its haunting finale the movie recalls no less than Mervyn LeRoy's Depression-era classic I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang.

| Mar 27, 2015

Michelle Williams is in every scene of Wendy and Lucy, and ably carries that burden -- with her dark pixie haircut and cut-offs, she looks frighteningly vulnerable, an indie urchin stuck in circumstances both dire and mundane.

| Mar 27, 2015

Wendy and Lucy is too laconic to be mistaken for a social drama, but it's set in a land whose harshness seems to a require a stronger critique than Reichardt's vignettes.

| Jul 7, 2010

Evanescent and intangible, it dissolves into the air, leaving something tragic and mysterious behind.

| Jul 7, 2010

Reichardt, working as she did in Old Joy from a short story by Jonathan Raymond, is unwilling (as she was in Old Joy) to either romanticize or condescend to her characters' self-willed marginality.

| Jul 7, 2010

Kelly Reichardt's devastating little film has attracted a lot of admiration since its debut at Cannes last year, partly because of its timeliness.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 27, 2009

The narrative has been pared to the bone, and that was a problem for me. We know nothing about Wendy, who she really is, why she left Indiana, what she hopes to do in Alaska -- apart from find a job.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 27, 2009

Wendy and Lucy is a film of small details and unassuming craftsmanship. It may be too slight for some, but if you let it get under your skin, it packs a devastating emotional coda.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2009

Wendy and Lucy is quiet, deliberate filmmaking. See it knowing you will witness an idiosyncratic take on storytelling by a fundamentally independent filmmaker.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 6, 2009

This brilliant, desperately sad Steinbeckian fable from American director Kelly Reichardt. It's Reichardt's third full-length feature ('Old Joy' was in cinemas last year), but only her first masterpiece.

| Original Score: 6/6 | Mar 6, 2009

Wendy and Lucy is a sweet, slight and beautifully crafted film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2009

The classic indie-Sundance idiom of reticent performance, affectless dialogue, stonewashed colour photography and plain, sans-serif lettering on the credits.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2009

Slow, ponderous, meticulously rendered realism that will appeal to specific audiences of slow, ponderous, meticulously rendered realism, with a heart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2009

Sensible people will see the film for what it is: Waiting for Dogot without Beckett... But you cannot argue with dog lovers: they see in a vacuum of nothingness an existential nirvana.

| Mar 6, 2009

Williams, with pageboy haircut and a martyrishly sad face, is quite lovely as this lost soul, while writer-director Kelly Reichardt catches something poignant in the windblown spaces of the American north-west.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2009

The story is told with a merciful lack of sentimentality, while Williams's performance seems totally natural. Added to that, Reichardt paints the smalltown scene with an attention to detail that a lot of other films miss.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2009

Deliberately paced -- slow, even -- it's nevertheless an amazing, timely parable for increasingly desperate times.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2009

Wendy and Lucy is a short, sweet film with a premise as plain as they come: A girl and her dog drift into town.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 20, 2009