Kelly Reichardt

The 30 best films of 2023

By Little White Lies

As we wave goodbye to another year at the movies, we reflect on the films that have stayed with us – from the plastic fantastic to tense courtroom dramas.

Kelly Reichardt’s Animal Kingdom

By Bota Koilybayeva

Within the gentle, naturalistic films of Kelly Reichardt, domestic animals are granted the space to exist as they are – not as performers, but as companions.

Michelle Williams just needs some hot water in the first Showing Up trailer

By Charles Bramesco

She plays a frustrated artist preparing for a show in Kelly Reichardt's wry, downbeat comedy.

Showing Up – first-look review

By Caitlin Quinlan

Michelle Williams excels as a sculptor whose attention is sapped by colleagues and family in Kelly Reichardt’s ambient social satire.

Claire Denis and David Cronenberg headline the 2022 Cannes Film Festival

By David Jenkins

This year’s stacked line-up also includes new work Kelly Reichardt, Ruben Ostlünd and Park Chan-wook – but no David Lynch.

First Cow

By David Jenkins

This miniature epic is both a thrilling extension and perfect summation of Kelly Reichardt’s cinematic project to date.

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By David Jenkins

In celebration of Kelly Reichardt, one of America’s greatest working filmmakers, and her extraordinary new film.

Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams will reunite on Showing Up

By Charles Bramesco

The director’s regular collaborator is set to play an artist preparing the exhibition of a lifetime.

The 30 best films of 2020

By Little White Lies

Our favourite new releases from this year, featuring Spike Lee, Chloé Zhao, Josephine Decker and more.

The 100 Best Films of the 2000s: 25-1

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A.I., American Psycho and Bamboozled all make the final part of our list – but what will come out on top?

How Kelly Reichardt’s depiction of loneliness helped me feel full again

By Annie Wojnarowski

Watching Certain Women as a severely depressed 17-year-old, I saw my own feelings of isolation reflected back at me.

First Cow – first look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Kelly Reichardt trains her meticulous eye on 1820s Oregon in this sublime companion piece to 2006’s Old Joy.

Kelly Reichardt and Sally Potter are heading to the 2020 Berlinale

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

They’ll be joined by Abel Ferrara and Tsai Ming-liang when the festival kicks off in February.

Kelly Reichardt blazes a trail in the First Cow trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The American writer/director’s poignant latest flattened audiences at last year’s New York Film Festival.

60 films to look forward to in 2019 – part 2

By Rory Marsh

New works from Claire Denis, Jordan Peele and Kelly Reichardt round out our bumper 2019 preview.

How subtitles change the way we watch movies

By Joel Blackledge

Regardless of how filmmakers like Wes Anderson use translation, the boundaries between languages are not as fixed as they seem.

It Felt Like Love: A celebration of 50 great female filmmakers

By Little White Lies

Personal odes to some of the finest women directors from around the world.

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