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(1 - 40) of 40 OFCS Rating: 92% Fresh Page   1   "this quiet, unfussy film feels more important than a whole host of glossy blockbusters, raising urgent yet easily ignored questions about the often unforgiving economic environment of which everyone forms a part."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel "'Wendy and Lucy' is the best feel-bad movie of the year."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker B "Reichardt is a gifted visual composer and a dream with actors, but a little from this filmmaker goes an awfully long way. Wendy steps further into Reichardt's cinematic meditation, yet shows her straining to reach lofty emotional goals."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 4/5 "A prime specimen of American independent cinema"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin 10/10 "If it was so simple to make, "Wendy and Lucy" wouldn´t be the best American feature film of 2008. Which it is."   DVDTown.com   Christopher Long 4/5 "If Wendy and Lucy isn't the most dynamic movie around, at least its tone and approach are sure-footed and appropriate."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 2.5/4 "...slowly-but-surely grows on the viewer ..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair A- "Everything about this small indie feels smart, just right, and well-acted."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3.5/5 "An interesting film that needs the audience to serve as a mirror for Wendy’s travails and emotions."   Film Threat   Don R. Lewis "A moment snatched from time, from a life coming from nowhere in particular, passing through interchangeable cities on a road map - and not bound for glory."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit 3/4 "Keenly observational and quietly poignant, Wendy and Lucy is a personalized hymn to economic strife and the sort of everyday financial demands that keep one from getting the leg-up they need."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B+ "Like Reichardt, Williams does a lot with very little, culminating in a bittersweet, quietly moving finale."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "Bruises while barely raising its voice"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce 3.5/4 "[A] thoroughly contemplative and reflective small scale feature. Tender and relentlessly subdued in its low-key poignancy...quaint yet [a] gut-wrenching narrative."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng B "Paints a frequently affecting snapshot of a rudderless young woman in difficult straits, [though] its homespun approach never achieves a transcendent effect."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "A compassionate account of an enterprising young woman on her way to Alaska to find work who falls into peril due to a series of unforeseen circumstances beyond her control."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat A- "A simplistic and symbolic story; a portrait of this mean old country and its economic disparity."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 3/4 "For all that the plot is minimal, it provides a non-judgmental look into the life of a woman who, while not undergoing a life-or-death ordeal, is facing something no less soul crushing."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3.5/4 "a small, spare, and genuinely beautiful film, very much the spiritual descendent of Italian neorealism"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 6/10 "[Wendy's] story works on an empathetic, functional level, and it thankfully resists extreme turns of any kind, though that lack of distinction also contributes to the generalization of both her character and this particular scenario."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 82/100 "Even as Wendy’s desperate situation magnifies every triumph and setback, Williams remains a remarkably grounded presence. It is quite likely the year’s best screen acting."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 3/4 "Surprisingly gripping little movie about a drifter in a small Oregon town looking for her lost pooch, features Michelle Williams in a raw nerve of a performance."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 3.5/5 "Writing this review gave me more appreciation for the film as a work than I had while I was watching it. Perhaps it was intended to be more like a lovely poem or a painting."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery A- "...timing with the current economic crisis makes Wendy's plight an Everyman's and the poignancy and fate of human kindnesses and transgressions make "Wendy and Lucy" feel like a Northwestern "Umberto D.""   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "A car breaking down, a lost dog, a town with no jobs -- these are mundane points in a mundane America, but they are Wendy’s world in its entirety, a floating world that we glimpse briefly before it moves on."   Not Coming to a Theater Near You   Leo Goldsmith 3.5/4 "Dramatic arc is an elegant structure revealing the laws of emotional physics"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes 3.5/4 "Though it doesn't feature Old Joy's Air America radio call-in Greek chorus, Kelly Reichardt's follow-up Wendy and Lucy is nonetheless a somber politicized lament for hardscrabble lives struggling to exist on the economic precipice."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 5/5 "A spare and incredibly moving portrait of life on the fringes of contemporary America"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "A beautiful performance from Michelle Williams anchors this gentle examination of modern life"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 5/5 "A quiet heartbreaker with a keen sense of the reality of lives like Wendy's."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves 4/4 "Wendy and Lucy gets under your nails, which is to say, it's the stuff of life."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick C "Agonizingly slow-moving and it has a bare-bones plot in which nothing much happens."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B+ "[Michelle] Williams delivers the goods and deserves the attention this fine role is getting."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 4/10 "If you liked "Into the Wild" you might have half a chance of getting into this extended melodrama. But beware, the story has none of the interesting characters and double the lameness."   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson 3.5/5 "Director co-writer Kelly Reichardt ... has fashioned a cautionary tale for the ages."   JWR   S. James Wegg A "This is survival, revealed in all the blunt details of a documentary portrait and the simple power of [Michelle] Williams' unadorned, Oscar-worthy performance."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 9/10 "Turns the slimmest of narrative threads into a powerful meditation on the emotional cost of living."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 2/4 "grim to the point of tedium"   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 3/4 "Although the film itself is uneven and unresolved, there is no question that Michelle Williams delivers a career high performance as a desperate woman whose only companion is her faithful dog."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell Read review   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 40) of 40 OFCS Rating: 92% Fresh Page   1