Certain Women

Certain Women

Directed by Kelly Reichardt

Produced by filmscience, Clyde Park

2016107 min6.0 / 10

A contemplative, deliberately paced portrait of three isolated women navigating desire, constraint, and disconnection across the Montana landscape.

Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.

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  • Is Certain Women sad? Yes. More sad than 88% of films.

  • Is Certain Women scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Is Certain Women violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.

  • Does Certain Women end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 64% of films.

  • Is Certain Women easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

33/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

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Rarity67

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise19

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love22

How much audiences actually like it

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Like Certain Women

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Like Certain Women, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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