Wendy and Lucy

Wendy and Lucy is modest, minimalist. But it nonetheless reverberates like a sonic boom.Read Full Review »

Wendy and Lucy is like "Lassie Come Home" directed by Antonioni. What's piercing about it, and also disturbing, is that Reichardt views the renunciation of society with something close to righteous purity -- as a lefty romantic dream.Read Full Review »

Williams' performance is remarkable not only for its depth but for its stillness.Read Full Review »

What will happen to her? The strength of this short, simple, perfect story of a young woman and her dog is that this does not seem, by the end, to be an idle or trivial question. What happens to Wendy -- and to Lucy -- matters a lot, which is to say that Wendy and Lucy, for all its modesty, matters a lot too.Read Full Review »

Trembling throughout on the verge of a tearful breakdown, but far too dignified to allow her character to choke up, Williams delivers a sensationally nuanced performance that, were it not so resolutely undramatic, would constitute an aria of stoical misery.Read Full Review »

Another illustration of how absorbing a film can be when the plot doesn't stand between us and a character.Read Full Review »

Simple story, beautifully told.Read Full Review »

Wendy Carroll is a character we rarely see in movies anymore, a woman left alone with her thoughts. That a moviegoer would care what she's thinking testifies to the power in Williams's brand of solitude.Read Full Review »

An evocative film with a believable and subtly enthralling lead performance that gets deeply under your skin.Read Full Review »

Reichardt is a tremendously conscientious filmmaker, and not out to torture the audience. Yes, this is a fraught and agonizing story, but the way it ends, although heartbreaking, is absolutely right.Read Full Review »