I decided to see this movie primarily because of Lily Gladstone, and she certainly lives up to expectations. However, the film itself doesn’t quite hit its mark. It centers on two fundamental ideas: that each individual experiences grief uniquely, rendering any attempts at comfort futile, and that genuine understanding of another person is impossible. Even when someone expresses their thoughts directly, the meaning s…

There's a significant distinction between portraying something as mystical versus simply mystifying, and writer-director Morissa Maltz’s second film falls short in recognizing this difference. This dreamlike story about a Native American woman—played by Lily Gladstone—dealing with the death of her grandmother follows her on what feels like a personal quest across the Midwest and Southern Great Plains. Leaving Minneap…