One of the year's most striking, unique films

It’s not often a film captures the feeling of great prose. And why should it? Film is a visual medium, and if watching a film truly felt like the experience of reading a book one might expect the experience to be distracting and questionable. But writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s quiet, chilly Certain Women does indeed invoke the feeling of pouring over a page, and it does so in a positive way. Reichardt is a filmmaker who understands how to command silence, and there are stretches of Certain Women when the characters stand silently in the frame and you can almost hear a narrator in your head describing every single thing on the screen, as if you were curled up with a book and picturing it all in your head. http://www.cutprintfilm.com/reviews/certain-women/