
Certain Women drops us into a handful of intersecting lives across Montana. A lawyer (Laura Dern) tries to defuse a hostage situation and calm her disgruntled client (Jared Harris), who feels slighted by a workers' compensation settlement. A married couple (Michelle Williams and James Le Gros) breaks ground on a new home but exposes marital fissures when they try to persuade an elderly man to sell his stockpile of sandstone. A ranch hand (Lily Gladstone) forms an attachment t... (Full plot summary below)
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Certain Women drops us into a handful of intersecting lives across Montana. A lawyer (Laura Dern) tries to defuse a hostage situation and calm her disgruntled client (Jared Harris), who feels slighted by a workers' compensation settlement. A married couple (Michelle Williams and James Le Gros) breaks ground on a new home but exposes marital fissures when they try to persuade an elderly man to sell his stockpile of sandstone. A ranch hand (Lily Gladstone) forms an attachment to a young lawyer (Kristen Stewart), who inadvertently finds herself teaching a twice-weekly adult education class, four hours from her home.
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| NPR's Fresh AirJohn PowersReichardt is tuned to precisely the thing that most movies cut out, the largely undramatic texture of daily life. |
| The ListKatherine McLaughlinA tender, meaty and startlingly beautiful portrait of the American Northwest and the trailblazing women that toil fearlessly against its rocky terrain. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsThe movie is faithful to everything real. |
| Sight and SoundKate StablesCertain Women's whispers are more penetrating than most film's shouts. |
| Globe and MailKate TaylorStewart does an intriguing job creating a paradoxical character who explains herself without giving of herself, her very persona exposing the false promise of personal exposition. |
| National PostTina HassanniaWhile Certain Women is focused somewhat on the nuance of dialogue and its intertwining with body language, it's a deliberately quiet and reserved little film. |
| Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinWhile there’s no doubt this is the work of a filmmaker entirely in command of her craft, there’s something a trifle academic and dry about the whole exercise, and slightly lacking in narrative cohesion given the nature of its origins. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeAs with Reichardt’s more streamlined miniatures, regional detail accounts for much of the film’s lingering resonance, as her characters are molded by (and, in some cases, rail against) the landscape they inhabit. |
| Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangReichardt has never been one to reduce her characters to an easy emotional or dramatic equation, and here the everyday challenge of being female in a male-dominated profession is just one element on an extraordinarily fine-grained human canvas. |
| Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonThe characters are really minimalist masterpieces, sculpted, polished and uncompromisingly female. |