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Mainstream filmmakers face a tricky balancing act when it comes to tackling the climate crisis and portraying those who are fighting to avert eco-catastrophe. An approach that is either too light or too po-faced risks undermining the efforts of real-life activists. Even Kelly Reichardt’s generally solid thriller Night Moves (2013)…

CHICAGO — The Florida-born filmmaker and Bard College film professor Kelly Reichardt makes beautiful movies about harsh conditions. In the singular early 19th century Oregon-set “First Cow” and now with her newest work, the disarming seriocomedy “Showing Up,” Reichardt pays attention to lives lived, often precariously, just above a fraying…

A droll, easygoing procession of slights, obstacles and microaggressions on the road to an artist’s gallery opening, “Showing Up” could be classified as co-writer and director Kelly Reichardt’s first comedy since her “Old Joy” 17 years ago. But labels are deceptive. There’s subterranean seriousness underneath the deadpan-comic surface here, and…

Last weekend, the first weekend of Earth Month, the incendiary ecoterrorism thriller “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” debuted in theaters after premiering at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Adapted from the book by Andreas Malm, the film, directed by Daniel Goldhaber, is a swift, pulse-pounding thriller about a…

A ceramic artist named Lizzy sits in her studio, nimbly bending the arm of a clay figurine. She examines her creation, then picks up a fork and scrapes the clay girl's skirt. In doing so, she adds folds to the clothing and makes it look more realistic.

The quiet perceptions, everyday troubles and intermittent moments of transcendence that make up Kelly Reichardt’s films have always had a rhythm apart from most American movies

More than once in "Showing Up," her wry and wonderful new movie, the director Kelly Reichardt gives us something that feels rarer than it should in American cinema: a lingering moment in the presence of an artist at work. Not a famous writer pounding self-consciously away at a typewriter, cranking…

The film-maker behind First Cow discusses her new Michelle Williams-starring drama Showing Up and the difficulties of making art in this climate

Is the trend for epic movies and hefty novels getting too much? Our critics redress the balance with a classic compilation of shorter works – plus 10 long ones that are worth your time

LOS ANGELES — Michelle Williams has been talking about artistic journeys — her own and the one at the heart of "The Fabelmans," the film that just earned her a fifth Oscar nomination — and she pulls out her phone to show me a photo of her 17-year-old daughter, Matilda,…

Will, who was the first to leave the tent earlier this week, reveals all about his Bake Off experience. Plus: jaunty crime drama Professor T returns. Here’s everything to watch this evening