107 minute running time … Montana, three separate “stories,” but there was no there there. Laura Dern (Bruce Dern’s daughter) … hostage negotiation with Lane Price from Mad Men (Jared Harris is a talented actor) … Michelle Williams (Larry’s daughter) wants some sandstone from an old guy she gives a phony smile to … Kristen Stewart, the world’s worst actress (widely acknowledged); Kristen going with dirty hair and baggy eyes to give her character depth.

I learned of this movie from Lily Gladstone’s appearance in the Criterion Closet, which was unfortunate since watching this was a waste of time. She is a chunky Indian girl (injun not red dot) who needs to paint her ceiling. Her story with Kristen Stewart was a sort of failed lesbian love story? It was supposed to be sort of sad, maybe? Big puppy dog eyes and no words.

Kelly Reichardt could be a nepo baby or has funding from some mysterious source? Terrible. Don’t see this.

Mick LaSalle got it right: “‘Certain Women’: Just like real life, and just as boring”

Chris Nashawaty says “Certain Women is … kind of an aimless drag. It isn’t until the last third that the film finally comes to heartbreaking life.” About the failed lesbian love story he says it’s “too little too late.”

The always reliable Rex Reed says “'Certain Women' is the latest thumping bore from Kelly Reichardt.” … “three separate, unrelated and thoroughly inconsequential short stories about lonely, miserable women in the isolated landscape of Montana” … “Kelly Reichardt, a writer-director-editor who makes bland, low-budget films about various hidden aspects of women’s lives they are reluctant to reveal, then take forever to do so.” “The abbreviated direction leaves the working-class female characters with nothing to do and even less to say, and the script offers no helpful information about who they are or how they feel about their dead-end lives. Ambiguity reigns.” “I embrace subtlety on the screen as much as any critic, but somewhere between spaces and pauses, a movie has to turn up somewhere.”

God bless Rex!