Showing Up

Name: Showing Up
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: April 7, 2023
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 86
Cast: Amanda Plummer, André Benjamin, Denzel Rodriguez, Heather Lawless, Hong Chau

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A24 | Release Date: April 7, 2023 | R

Starring: Amanda Plummer, André Benjamin, Denzel Rodriguez, Heather Lawless, Hong Chau, James LeGros, Jean-Luc Boucherot, John Magaro, Judd Hirsch, Lauren Lakis, Maryann Plunkett, Matt Malloy, Michelle Williams, Ted Rooney, Todd-o-Phonic Todd

Summary: A sculptor preparing to open a new show must balance her creative life with the daily dramas of family and friends, in Kelly Reichardt's vibrant and captivatingly funny portrait of art and craft.

Director: Kelly Reichardt

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 108 min

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David Rooney

May 28, 2022

This beautifully acted, expertly modulated film is a work of such enveloping gentleness that even the worst crises are simply absorbed into the fabric of life and work. While the ending might have been corny in a less subtle director’s hands, here it’s quietly restorative. We don’t deserve Kelly Reichardt. Read full review

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Collider Chase Hutchinson

Apr 7, 2023

In a world of so much noise, it is Reichardt’s Showing Up that proves to be present and powerful in its accumulation of small moments that come together into something spectacular. Read full review

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Mick LaSalle

Apr 10, 2023

The movie is about a sculptor, played by Michelle Williams, in the days leading up to a gallery show. That’s all it’s about, and yet it’s enough. The pleasure of Showing Up is in being dropped into this woman’s life and, more profoundly, into her consciousness. Read full review

May 28, 2022

Showing Up is perhaps Reichardt’s most grounded and least impressionistic film, but it is still more than thoughtful and enjoyable and beautiful. Read full review

John Bleasdale

Jun 10, 2022

Just as we learn to grudgingly like Lizzie, we also see the value in her work as it slowly comes together, emerging from the kiln with new colours and finally being displayed among her family and friends. Read full review

Manuel Betancourt

Apr 6, 2023

To say Showing Up centers on the moments in between Lizzy unwittingly caring for a broken pigeon and making sure she has enough pieces to show at the gallery is accurate. Yet, in true Reichardt fashion, the point is not the plot so much as the spaces in between what’s happening on screen. Read full review

Mark Kennedy

Apr 5, 2023

Showing Up may be a rallying cry to let artists just be artists — Reichardt is famously an artist in residence at Bard College, in large part to have health insurance — but she may have miscalculated how much compassion is generated by a supposed lover of beauty who is as cold and off-putting as her figurines. Read full review

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katezoe

Jul 3, 2023

Kelly Reichardt does another spectacular job directing and writing this beautiful film. This is another collaboration starring Michelle Williams who is sublime.

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Gamelore

Jun 27, 2023

With a light touch, this movie manages to expand and occupy more of my brain over time. It's funny how the brain creates tension around things that might happen. In that regard, it is almost a healing film because it puts the spotlight on the wandering, worrying brain. One of the mainWith a light touch, this movie manages to expand and occupy more of my brain over time. It's funny how the brain creates tension around things that might happen. In that regard, it is almost a healing film because it puts the spotlight on the wandering, worrying brain. One of the main subjects of this film that drew emotional reaction ended up being an actual, inconsequential physical wounding. I loved how the shots of focused labor contrasted with the real-life-mode activities. There did seem to be a clear amount of token characters used and the poorly cast father doesn't look anything like his daughter, nor look young enough to be her father, nor know how to act realistically. These distracting factors were the only things that took me out of the film. So little is shown that the brain has room to obsess over what was seen, however I don't think the optimal point was chosen for dwelling on this level of content. After watching this film, I have realized a requirement of film-making. Every single scene must linger in the same place for at least a minute or two (subject to the amount of adrenaline forecast) for optimal long-term enjoyment.… Expand

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moviemitch96

Apr 29, 2023

Kelly Reichardt graces us with yet another slow cinema film, this time about a middle-aged sculptor (Michelle Williams) simply trying to live day by day without hot water in her house before her big artistic showcase. While Williams is fine in the lead, and supporting performances from AndreKelly Reichardt graces us with yet another slow cinema film, this time about a middle-aged sculptor (Michelle Williams) simply trying to live day by day without hot water in her house before her big artistic showcase. While Williams is fine in the lead, and supporting performances from Andre Benjamin, Jon Magaro, Hong Chau, and Judd Hirsch to name a few were nice to see as well, the film, much like its main character, lacks any true story/purpose or direction. While this has come to be expected from Reichardt at this point in her career, it lacks the same warmth and charm of some of her previous films, such as 'First Cow'. Overall, it's simply rather too slow, aimless, and ultimately forgettable… Expand

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