Michelle Williams and Kelly Reichardt on the power of ‘Showing Up’

Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. ‘Showing Up’ The fact that “Showing Up” is the new film directed by Kelly Reichardt, co-written with her frequent collaborator Jon Raymond, should be selling point enough. But of course there’s always a story in how human beings navigate one another and sometimes try to bridge — and hide out in — that bristling, ineffable space between us.” For Vanity Fair, Richard Lawson wrote, “I’d have to imagine that ‘Showing Up’ is a deeply personal project for Reichardt, a mulling over of her own creative process just as last year’s exquisite ‘Bergman Island’ was for Mia Hansen-Løve. Reichardt’s evident artistic self-liberation adds an extra joy to the viewing experience.” Michelle Williams and Hong Chau in “Showing Up.” ‘Air’ Directed by Ben Affleck from a screenplay credited to Alex Convery, “Air” tells the story behind the signing of a young Michael Jordan to Nike and the origins of the Air Jordan brand. It needs the benediction offered by those pixelated, decades-old images of the real thing, whose presence still fills emotional voids and captures imaginations.” For NPR, Aisha Harris wrote, “We’re living in the era of the nostalgic headline-to-Hollywood pipeline and in an age where entrepreneurs are obsessed with being credited as artistic visionaries, so perhaps it was inevitable something like the movie ‘Air’ would come to exist.