52 films by women 2024: 26/52.
Like the abstract and conceptual art its characters make, Kelly Reichardt's new film is extremely open to interpretation. There have been some hugely positive reviews: Richard Brody, who confesses to having not been a Reichardt fan before this film, spent his New Yorker review sounding like he was in the throes of religious rapture. But Brody seemed to believe Michelle Williams's central character Lizzy was, if not a self-portrait, very closely aligned with Reichardt's…