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Kelly Reichardt is one of contemporary cinema's great filmmakers. The director of indie hits like Wendy and Lucy, Meek's Cutoff, and Night Moves, critics have labeled her modern portraits of the West—even the bumbling pioneers in First Cow felt revisionist—as feminist, minimalist, and slow. However, fans of her work will tell you every pregnant pause, every determined gaze, every harmonious moment between nature and human adds up. We wouldn't cut a second of it. Her.