The film perceptively elevates Meloy's Montana-based short stories in examination of serendipitous intersections that progressively delve deeper into the details of four working women's lives.
In its initial stretches, Kelly Reichardt's deliberated paced and seamless anthology drama, Certain Women, may feel like it's missing a certain dread or urgency that defines her last decade of persistently stellar, geographically specific work. But its soft accrual of lulling silences and profound stares come to reveal overarching emotional truths in the lives and well-being of four working women through the heart of Montana.