Certain Women drops us into a handful of intersecting lives across Montana. A lawyer (
Laura Dern) tries to defuse a hostage situation and calm her disgruntled client (
Jared Harris), who feels slighted by a workers' compensation settlement. A married couple (
Michelle Williams and
James Le Gros) breaks ground on a new home but exposes marital fissures when they try to persuade an elderly man to sell his stockpile of sandstone. A ranch hand (
Lily Gladstone) forms an attachment to a young lawyer (
Kristen Stewart), who inadvertently finds herself teaching a twice-weekly adult education class, four hours from her home.
—Polly_Kat