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3 stars out of 5 -- "It's a small story with a big heart that trumps a lot of the louder and more expensive machine-made Hollywood pictures." 12/01/2008 p.38Entertainment Weekly
"[Reichardt] has perfected a mode of rapturous minimalism....Williams makes Wendy's total lack of affect luminously expressive." -- Grade: A- 12/12/2008 p.55 New York Times
"[The film] does not include a superfluous word or shot....What happens to Wendy -- and to Lucy -- matters a lot, which is to say that WENDY AND LUCY, for all its modesty, matters a lot too." 12/12/2008 Los Angeles Times
"Reichardt's haunting, mournful film engages the texture of a life in which money and hope are equally thin on the ground....Williams' performance is remarkable not only for its depth but for its stillness." 12/12/2008 Rolling Stone
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Kelly Reichardt is a true cinema poet who works miracles in miniature. And she finds the perfect collaborator in Williams..." 01/08/2008 p.118 Entertainment Weekly
Included in Entertainment Weekly's 2008 Films Of The Year -- "[A] precise, nearly whispered story....Pay attention, and it grows into a textured ode -- or maybe it's a lament -- to a lost America..." 12/26/2008 Chicago Sun-Times
"WENDY AND LUCY is another illustration of how absorbing a film can be when the plot doesn't stand between us and a character." 01/28/2009 Washington Post
"Williams's performance is nuanced, moving and well worth any awards she gets." 01/30/2009 Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "Far more than just a sentimental anecdote about a girl and a dog, on this exciting new director's watch a simple tale becomes the stuff of pure poetry." 03/01/2009 | 
