Certain Women

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  • 2017


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Average Rating 3.9/5
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3.8
Mostly, though, the filmmaker just allows two terrific actresses to naturalistically play out this achingly sad scenario. Av Club
4.5
Mostly, though, the filmmaker just allows two terrific actresses to naturalistically play out this achingly sad scenario. Av Club
2.0
Kelly Reichardt has finally made her Seinfeld esque movie about nothing. Den Of Geek
2.8
Its detailed, delicate, and frankly, kind of an aimless drag. It isnt until the last third that the film finally comes to heartbreaking life. EW
4.4
These are normal people, like you and me, and its that relatability that makes Reichardts work here so powerful. Rogerebert
3.5
Did you know you can flag iffy content Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kids entertainment guide. Common Sense Media
4.5
Kelly Reichardts wonderful triptych of female character studies confirms her status as the quietest of great American filmmakers. Variety
4.0
Certain Women more than justifies itself as a serious argument for the beauty of the small and intimate drama and the importance of female driven film .. We Got This Covered
4.0
Its hard to recall a movie with such a precise, immersive sense of place, and the very specific mood that comes with it. Time Out
5.0
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. The Guardian
4.0
It is a movie that declines to detonate the traditional climactic revelation or catharsis that pulls everything together, and some might find it frust .. The Guardian
4.0
Gladstone conveys a heartbreaking sense of yearning, while never verbally stating as much. The Guardian
3.8
But translated into Romanian, it doesnt have the same power as La Gomera!
5.0
Ann Hornaday writes, The rewards are rich and revelatory in a film that doesnt soft pedal the woes facing the planet, but celebrates the kind of direc ..
1.5
Certain Women is never explicit, about anything, which is what will make it a rewarding experience for discerning viewers. Screen Daily
4.0
Reichardt has spun another breathtaking ode to life, and to the female experience, with easy humor and most of all, tenderness, that makes the phrase .. Collider
4.5
Certain Women turns out to be a study in womens uncertainties, in the experience of pain that leads not to action but acceptance. Its a slow go but yo .. Vulture
1.5
If the characters here are often sparing with their words, or even withholding, the visuals speak volumes. The Hollywood Reporter
3.5
Certain viewers might like the film to have more closure and containment, but others will certainly welcome the company of these characters.
4.5
The subtlety of the film is both an accomplishment and a limitation. Its hard not to want more for these women, and to wish you could see more of them .. The New York Times
4.5
Those ambitions arent Reichardtsshes a filmmaker who chronicles everyday activities with an exceptionally unfussy clarity. Paste Magazine
4.5
Its more about what Jamie doesnt say to Beth or what Laura stops herself from saying to Fuller that makes the movie work. Rogerebert
5.0
Without seeking to push a one size fits all philosophy, Certain Women coalesces magically and suggests many in the end, its about things missing, all .. Telegraph
4.5
Advertisement Her two most recent films, the slow burning frontier western Meeks Cutoff and the tense eco thriller Night Moves, found her subtly remap ..
2.5
Theres simply something unknowable in the social dynamic thats very peculiar. San Francisco Chronicle
5.0
Ive never seen a film quite like it.Certain Women works along the lines of Yasujiro Ozus films. The Young Folks
4.0
A rich, gently humorous character study luxuriating in the minutiae of these womens outwardly small scale lives.
4.0
Director Kelly Reichardt, who made the great Wendy and Lucy, likes stories that unfold slowly and simply. Sometimes shell just let the camera run, mak .. Ny Daily News
5.0
With the third act, the power of Reichardts elliptical approach becomes apparent. The Globe And Mail
4.5
A gentle, slow moving, film about the heartache and disappointment of four Wyoming women. Spirituality And Practice
2.5
An interesting addition to a distinctive career, but not Reichardt at her best. One Guys Opinion
2.5
Director Reichardt has gotten away with giving us less and less with each movie, to the point where she begrudges surrendering even the smallest incid .. Rogers Movie Nation
3.5
The minimalist storyteller leaves much unsaid in her rich film, but says enough to get us thinking about the characters long after the film. Sover
4.2
An intriguing trio of tales that handle stillness skillfully, but understands identity remarkably. Blu Ray
5.0
Gina Lewis (Michelle Williams) is an unhappy woman who sneaks off for cigarettes and bemoans that her detached teen daughter doesnt seem to like her. Combust Ible Celluloid
2.5
For the most part, these narratives lack the kind of tension between character and setting that have made Reichardts quiet, modest, measured films so .. Chicago Reader
3.1
ts a shame this well acted and precisely staged movie never comes together in a way that makes a forceful or even noticeable argument. Mark Reviews Movies
3.8
Do not expect action and thrills in this quiet, reflective study of very different women living their lives in Montana
4.2
features the kind of beautiful writing, direction and acting that say more in what is left unsaid...Certain Women has a strong emotional undertow bene ..
4.0
Kelly Reichardt elicits every nuance from her small town characters and leaves the viewer on the verge of reading their minds. The Times
4.0
The director documents her protagonists struggles using compassion and deceptive artistry. Although she shows restraint in the moment, the films simpl .. Radio Times
4.4
The cumulative power of Reichardts film, beautifully acted by Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart and Lily Gladstone, is undeniable and qui .. Rolling Stone
4.0
The concept album that is Arethas Gold follows the chronology of Aretha Franklins hits, all released in 1967 and 1968, apex years of the decade not ju .. Pop Matters
4.5
Certain Womens extraction of so much humanity and visual beauty from this despondent outlook renders it a minor masterpiece. Pop Matters
4.5
one of the most important American filmmakers working today, and this may be her best work yet. Pop Matters
4.5
If youre still thinking of the actress as a pop culture punching bag, youre really not paying attention. The Wrap
4.0
The acting is good throughout the film, but Gladstone and Stewart are a step up from everyone else. Az Central
4.5
Reichardt is tuned to precisely the thing that most movies cut out, the largely undramatic texture of daily life. Npr
4.5
From her terrific debut feature River of Grass through Meeks Cutoff and Wendy and Lucy, Reichardt has given us incomplete, quietly suffering women who .. Npr
3.8
Liev Schreiber is top notch in the lead role in this funny, sad and warm cautionary tale. Toronto Star
1.5
Even as the four protagonists struggle, often in vain, to get someone else to pay attention, Reichardts camera is right there, watching and listening. Slate
5.0
A tender, meaty and startlingly beautiful portrait of the American Northwest and the trailblazing women that toil fearlessly against its rocky terrain .. Flim List
4.5
With Certain Women, director Kelly Reichardt has created one of the most human cinematic universes in recent memory. Film Inquiry
3.0
Meditative and soulful, occasionally stunning in its bleak silence. Susang Ranger
1.3
The only reason to see Certain Women is the cast. These are interesting actresses who go out of their way to avoid mainstream movies, but whatever att .. Observer
4.5
Here, Reichardt infuses slender details with breathtaking emotion. New Yorker
4.5
Certain Women burns slow, but it leaves behind a mysterious, shimmering aura. You feel you know these women even if their feelings are at times elusiv .. Time
3.0
If you liked Robert Altmans Short Cuts, youll want to see this award winning Kelly Reichhardt film. Boston Herald
4.5
Ms. Stewart manages the remarkable feat of being at once convincingly mousy and unmistakably glamorous. The New York Times
3.8
I dont know anyone at all, Jamie tells Beth, beginning a moving story of unrequited companionship. The Film Stage
4.4
Reichardt and her first rate ensemble find intersections of the mundane and the mysterious all around this broad, blustery landscape. Chicago Tribune
4.4
Starring Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Lily Gladstone, Kristen Stewart. Boston Globe
4.5
Certain Women is one of the best movies Ive seen in 2016, and a signature work by one of our greatest contemporary filmmakers. Uproxx
4.0
In a movie characterised by delicate, precise movements from a formidable ensemble, it is soulful Gladstone whose ancestors include both William Glads .. The Irish Times
4.2
The glacial storytelling has a mesmerizing effect, and gives audiences time to drink in the big skies against which the humans look so insignificant a .. Blogs Indie Wire
1.5
Certain Women is a film where a missed opportunity to connect, or a brief, surprising flash of empathy, feels crucial enough to pore over days after s .. The Atlantic
4.0
Obviously, this isnt the kind of film that breaks box office records. Standard
4.5
Its smart and lithely lovely enough to be enjoyed by any cinephile. Pajiba
4.4
With Certain Women, Reichardt has delivered something exemplary once again. Movie Freak
4.2
Its a tiptoe of a movie, but its as elegant and graceful as the vast Montana landscape. Detroit News
4.4
Reichardt in no way pushes her material, instead giving the viewer the space to live in this space with the characters, observe them and listen to the .. Groucho Reviews
3.5
Certain Women is not always thrilling, but its certainly faithful. Consequence Of Sound
4.0
An exquisitely crafted, empathetic study of the female experience that will seriously impress. Hey U Guys
3.8
One wonders if nay, wishes that this two hander couldve sustained a feature. Film Freak Central
5.0
That doesnt sound like the stuff of great drama, and I guess it isnt. Now Toronto
4.5
With so much on its mind, its this devotion to mood that keeps Certain Women as satisfyingly visceral as it is excitingly cerebral, and as flavorfully .. Ner Dist
4.5
Gladstones face, even at rest, is absorbing, and if she doesnt get another worthy role soon, it will be a travesty. La Weekly
4.0
As the saying goes, there are a million ways to live. The beauty here is that we get to spend a little time observing some of them while reminding our .. Raidió Teilifís Éireann
3.0
If the definition of a good film is one that keeps you wanting to know what happens next, Tickled is among the greatest ever made. Abc
3.8
Certain Women requires patience from the viewer and isnt for anyone, but its a film of quiet and lingering beauty. Stl Today
1.5
But everything else in between doesnt offer enough to keep up intrigue. Screen Crush
3.0
With the quick fire pacing of most movies at the moment, shifting into Reichardts gentle, shuffling rhythm isnt particularly easy. Contact Music
4.5
...a different kind of modern Western; one where confrontations are deflected and firearms feel impotent. What is most important about these stories i .. Ar Kansas Online
4.0
She makes the mundane riveting and finds the relatable feelings present in ordinary routine. Film Racket
3.8
...keeps its distance; there isnt much, in terms of drama, to interrupt the routine of these womens lives. Larsen On Film
4.0
Not a movie filled with laughs, action or startling revelations but one that sticks in the memory and impresses with its subtlety. The Arts Desk
4.5
The characters are really minimalist masterpieces, sculpted, polished and uncompromisingly female. Wsj
4.4
That a relative newcomer like Gladstone can go toe to toe with Stewart in every scene and break the viewers heart is a small gift, just one of many th .. Sltrib
2.5
For all of the intricacy and subtlety of her direction, if the story Reichardt is spinning has no foundation to entertain then it doesnt matter... Punch Drunk Critics
4.5
Those who surrender to its compassionate take on survivors of their own harsh hinterlands will be richly rewarded. Straight
3.0
Beautifully filmed and performed the opening sequence using mirrors and doorframes to fuse the torsos of two characters to form a whole is stunning, b .. Sandiego Reader
4.0
She doesnt make shots that make cinephiles crow, Youve got see this shot! Metro New York
4.5
Certain Women, despite giving each of its stories a brief encapsulating coda, isnt merely open endedit seems to deny the very idea of narrative closur .. Film Comment
4.0
Earthy, real, and rich despite its understated narratives, Certain Women will reward patient cinemagoers with its delicate detail. One Room With A View
4.0
Reichardt operates as usual a specific sort of advocate for her characters, applying close, sustained, and considered attention to their predicaments, .. Sbs
4.5
That and the comfortability of watching nothing because theres always something in there. Flavor Wire
4.4
A methodical and slowly cooked film focusing on love and women, Kelly Reichardts Certain Women is totally engrossing. The film lives and breathes in t .. Awards Circuit
3.0
What unites these vignettes, which are based on the stories of Maile Maloy, is a sense of alienation and isolation, and the perceived powerlessness of .. Metro
4.5
What allows the film to avoid being just a simplistic reversal of misogynistic cliches is its uncompromising realism. Movie Mezzanine
1.5
I dont hate it, but Im not sure I really like it, either.. Certain Women is pretty much just for hardcore cinephiles who get off on shot composition a .. Lainey Gossip
4.4
On this wintry landscape, with its endless plains and biting wind, it seems as if everyone even the quietest has a story, if you take the time to list .. Seattle Times
4.5
A moving if somewhat elusive meditation on human aloneness and independent women at odds with their environment. Film Journal International ..
4.0
Reichardts camera always returns eventually from the burrows people dig for themselves to the mountains that hover on the horizon like a promise. Seven Day Svt
4.5
Every masterfully composed frame seethes with thoughts left unspoken but sentiments still made plain. Concrete Play Ground
4.5
In all three stories, traditional womens film territory is traversed (infidelity, a disintegrating marriage, a near miss love). Bfi
4.5
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. Bfi
4.5
As quiet as Certain Women is, these characters continued to live for me, long, long after the lights came up. Original Cin
5.0
While Certain Women is focused somewhat on the nuance of dialogue and its intertwining with body language, its a deliberately quiet and reserved littl .. National Post
4.5
In many ways, Reichardts more elusively designed film manages to be much more provocative thanks to her subtlety. Ion Cinema
1.5
This is an undemonstrative picture, richer in detail than incident, and ever so slightly wholegrain and dull. New States Man
4.5
With a hilariously shambolic Jared Harris, a flinty Rene Auberjonois, James Le Gros. New City Film
1.5
With no answers, great actresses and few rewards, Certain Women is a tough but worthy trip. Trespass Mag
4.5
She thinks they have a true connection until one night Beth doesnt return. Vulture
2.5
Its difficult to grade a film when the subject matter, and the subjects, feel so incomplete. Tulsa World
1.5
Some movies punch you in the gut. Others barely graze the skin but gnaw at you long after they finish. Certain Women is the second kind. Washington City Paper
3.8
The palpable chemistry solidifies our engagement in the characters who, performed by any other actors, might have come off as underwritten. Cambridge Day
4.5
The third tale tops it all, thanks to a sweet, tough performance by Lily Gladstone. Metro Active
4.5
In a cinema era increasingly leaning towards bombastic blockbusters, Certain Women is understated filmmaking at its best. News
5.0
This is a movie, above all, about loneliness, as well as the particular challenges that women face as they seek personal agency, or even just some for .. Film Festival Today
1.5
I like slow, narrative driven films but theres slow paced and then theres this. Battle Royale With Cheese
3.8
A quiet, female focused triptych of tales that keeps its scope quite modest. Film Forward
4.5
With the film Certain Women director Kelly Reichardt proves again that she is as much a poet as a storyteller. Kdhx
4.5
These are people the world normally doesnt pay much attention to. Critics Notebook
3.8
Reichardt, a director of quiet, contemplative films, has no desire to state any intentions outright, stripping the storytelling bare so its simpliciti .. MLive.com
4.4
Without adhering to storytelling conventions, Certain Women earns a quiet poignancy that only grows in hindsight. The Film File
3.8
All the stories are calm on the surface and turbulent beneath, but the final narrative in particular is a masterpiece in miniature of unexpressed pain .. Commercial Appeal
4.5
Thoughtful, meditative glimpses into the lives of three women that speak volumes about modern womanhood. L.A. Biz
4.5
Kelly Reichardts Certain Women was the best film I saw this year in Park City, and is sure to wind up on my shortlist of the years truly beautiful thi .. Cinema Scope
5.0
Rarely has a film so successfully highlighted the inner lives of the type of female characters so often ignored in movies. Buffalo News
4.5
The drama is low key and the issues far from extraordinary, but the characters are real and recognizable. Whats more, they are brought to life by tale .. Leonard Mal
4.4
A sense that we should be concentrating on gesture and intonation rather than plot. Seattle Weekly
3.8
look at the idiosyncratic relationships formed by those in this isolated region of the country is something that is rarely seen on screen. Junkee
4.5
With the power of storytelling, Reichardt shows us the absolute power of being human. Bust
4.5
Just as hyperactive pacing can throttle a thrilling narrative, glacial movement can serve to underscore tone and theme in profound ways. The Reader (Omaha, NE)
4.5
The world of emotions that play across Gladstone as Jamie starts the long drive home is heartbreaking. D Cist
4.5
Filmed in 16mm, this beautiful film produced by Todd Haynes deserves to be seen in as large enough a screen as possible. La Nación (Argentina)
4.0
A piece of great syntactic complexity, where aesthetics is based on the masterful use of language and stylistic, rhythmic and euphonic resources. El antepenúltimo mohicano ..
4.4
Certain Women differs in structure from some of Reichardts past masterpieces like Old Joy and Wendy & Lucy. But it has the same quiet, beating heart. Host Madison
4.5
Shot in the greys and browns of the areas native sandstone, Reichardts film captures the rough grittiness of these womans lives, as well as the occasi .. Hot Press
4.5
Kelly Reichardts film concerns three distinct stories in Montana. Bk Mag
3.5
Reichardt, in addition to the slow and methodical storytelling, continues to use the landscape to tremendous effect, the cinematography is gorgeous an .. The Digital Fix
4.5
We know this juxtaposition means something, but Reichardt doesnt hit us over the head with it, just lets it wash over us. Arts Fuse
4.0
From the first shot of Kelly Reichardts Certain Women a grainy Montana landscape grayed by winter, with hills so soft in they could be painted on, and .. Mubi
2.0
Reichardts unobtrusive and non manipulative approach seems to avoid the worst hazards of sentimentality. Four Three Film
3.1
What Certain Women is really about is a filmmaker who had one marvelous story to tell and linked it to 45 minutes of filler to make a feature film. Charlotte Observer
4.0
He doesnt drag me to his concerts (southern rock/blues guitar), and I dont make him sit through movies that I dont think hell appreciate. Womens Voices For Change
4.5
Reichardts latest might be undeniably sad at times, but its also devoid of self pity and apathy. Every bit contains wisdom that stretches as far as th .. Sd City Beat
4.0
Whats really important in the film is all internal and Reichardts direction and the excellent performances of all four women give us the time to see b .. Dogandwolf
4.5
These are all understated pieces, but like the performances they are intensely felt. Gladstone and Stewart, in particular, deliver exemplary work. Un Cut
2.0
Besides Gladstones performance, Certain Women doesnt have anything going for it that would make it memorable. Movies With Mae
4.5
I will save you the trouble and let you know that Certain Women doesnt do that; its not that kind of film.
1.5
Reichardt doesnt have the same narrative conventions to fall back on, but like the women she follows with her camera, she forges her own path and in d .. Moveable Fest
4.0
...an essay narrative that subtly makes its points without being too obvious or manipulative. Times Herald
4.5
Certain Women, this staggeringly talented writer directors sixth feature, is perhaps the purest distillation of Reichardts sensibility and might be he .. Spliced Personality
4.5
Whats crucial is that Reichardt doesnt play any of this for tragedythe pathos arises out of a collision of realities, specifically how one persons unh .. Reverse Shot
1.5
As with all of Reichardts films, the gems are in the smallest moments the half smiles, the non reactions and the silences between two people barely co .. Ap
4.5
An intimate, expressive psychological exercise in examining the ebbs and flows of life on both a micro and macro level. Screen Hub
4.5
And it doesnt need to: having made a Western and an environmental thriller (Night Moves), Reichardt has come full circle to the heart on sleeve intima .. Another Gaze
4.5
Reichardts characters are not taken from comic books; they are not easy heroes or outsize villains. are the kind who drive second hand cars or catch t .. The Monthly
4.5
This film is not about plot. Its about people, specifically women, and their often unceremonious place in the world. Missoula News
1.5
He doesnt return to the narrative again (besides a phone call ending their relationship). Chicago Cinema Circuit
4.5
Certain Women is undoubtedly beautiful, but solemnly beautiful at that, and requires viewers to watch attentively and with focus; as when viewing a gr .. Ancho Rage Press
3.8
Her characters make life decisions while they speak quietly on the telephone, while they discuss how to build a house, while they eat a hamburger... Ernestodiez Martinez
4.5
An eight hour trip on a highway doesnt equal eight hours in a wagon dragged by mules ... but thats not to mitigate the pain experienced by some 21st c .. The Culture Trip
1.5
Certain Women belongs to the four women at its core: Laura Derns fragile, exhausted stoicism, Michelle Williams neutrality laced with sharp edges, Lil .. Bitch Flicks
4.5
The euphemism feminist doesnt encompass the humanist effect of Reichardts filmmakingwhich more accurately, no innuendo intendedincludes lesbian experi .. Out
3.2
But its in how it fails, or rather how it fails to even take off, thats so extraordinary. Audiences Everywhere
4.5
Unlike so many fictional depictions of hoped for connection, the anguish of love is rarely this raw and without vanity. Ww2 Kqed
4.5
A film set in a natural and cold atmosphere with dark photography, disturbing characters, and women in situations of anxiety trying to achieve their d ..
4.5
Small town stories that remind us that everything is important to the people experiencing them, and there is drama everywhere you look if you pay atte .. Guff



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