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Slumdog Millionaire
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83
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82
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82
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82
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82
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81
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79
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78
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77
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76
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75
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55
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30
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Juno
Fox Searchlight Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual content and language
Starring
Ellen Page,
Michael Cera,
Allison Janney,
J.K. Simmons,
Olivia Thirlby,
Rainn Wilson,
Jason Bateman,
and
Jennifer Garner
Juno stars Ellen Page as the title character, a whip-smart teen confronting an unplanned pregnancy by her classmate Bleeker. With the help of her hot best friend, Leah, Juno finds her unborn child a "perfect" set of parents: an affluent suburban couple, Mark and Vanessa, longing to adopt. Luckily, Juno has the total support of her parents as she faces some tough decisions, flirts with adulthood, and ultimately figures out where she belongs. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Diablo Cody
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jason Reitman
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 15, 2008
Theatrical: December 5, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
92 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Hollywood's Woman of the Year is a pregnant 16-year-old, the incredibly hip, smart-mouthed and totally endearing heroine of the wise and witty Juno.
100
USA Today
Claudia Puig
With its original performances that can't be reduced to simplistic labels, Juno is charming, honest and terrifically acted.
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A fresh, quirky, unusually intelligent comedy.
100
San Francisco Chronicle
David Wiegand
A confluence of perfection in every aspect of the film.
91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
A witty little comic gem with a heart and a soul.
91
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
At its best, Juno is about the messy things in life that are not so easily summarized.
91
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A blithe charmer balanced somewhere between a life-should-be-so-neat fairy tale and a life's-a-real-bitch tragicomedy, leaves political debate at the ticket counter and focuses solely on what it's like for Juno MacGuff to be Juno MacGuff.
90
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Juno respects the idiosyncrasies of its characters rather than exaggerating them or holding them up for ridicule.
90
Slate
Dana Stevens
With a charismatic lead performance from Page and a plaintive score of indie-rock songs, many of them by Kimya Dawson of the Moldy Peaches, Juno seems poised to be the season's youth-culture hit.
90
The New Yorker
David Denby
Juno is a coming-of-age movie made with idiosyncratic charm and not a single false note.
90
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Not only gives us a superb new cast of believable characters, it transcends its own genre. Only superficially a teen comedy, the movie redounds with postmodern -- but emotionally genuine -- gravitas.
88
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
That smart, hip, human comedy you've been waiting for all year.
88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Like its heroine, the film's glib - and sometimes sidesplittingly funny - patter at first diverts viewers from its poignant insights. Happily, as Juno grows in experience and maturity, so does the film.
88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Ellen Page is key to its success, as much as Cody, or director Jason Reitman.
88
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
There's a special kick that comes in finding a new star. So step up, Ellen Page, and take your bows.
88
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Juno has a great heroine and is blessed by a screenplay that doesn't try to do too much and finds the perfect ending.
83
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
It comes off as calculatedly irreverent at times, and its Wes Anderson-isms are too precious by half, but its sweetness is genuine and next-to-impossible to resist.
83
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
A funny and sincere indie about what happens when an acerbic teen finds herself "in a fat suit I can't take off."
80
Time
Richard Schickel
Juno is not a great movie; it does not have aspirations in that direction. But it is, in its little way, a truthful, engaging and welcome entertainment.
80
Film Threat
Felix Vasques Jr.
Bateman is given all the best dialogue and delivers his hilarious one-liners and odd observations with his usual brilliant deadpan, along with Garner who gives the finest performance of her career.
80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
It's a comedy of crisp, mordant wit and quietly radiating warmth, as well as a coming-of-age story with a lovely twist -- you can't always spot the best candidates for maturity.
80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
As lively and entertaining as Juno is, Reitman and Cody have also done the work of shaping the story into something emotionally direct, unsparing and generous.
80
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Cody's dialogue has a definite rhythm and Reitman directs his actors to deliver the words in the rapid-fire precision of a '30s screwball comedy. Indeed all scenes develop a rhythm and inner logic that bring the movie to often startling revelations and insights.
80
Variety
Todd McCarthy
An ultra-smart-mouthed comedy about a planned adoption that goes weirdly awry.
80
Village Voice
Robert Wilonsky
Once it works its way through the first-timer's lookatme! snark, Juno evolves into a thing of beauty and grace. By the end, it's unexpectedly moving without ever once trolling for crocodile tears. It's a sneak attack.
80
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Deceptively superficial at the outset, the movie deepens into something poignant and unexpected.
80
Empire
Andrew Male
A sharp-edged, sweet-centred, warm-hearted coming-of-age movie that’s always just that little bit smarter than you think it is.
78
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
As with "Sunshine," I'd call Juno a family film if only it didn't make teen pregnancy look so sporting. Instead, we'll settle for that rare bird, an indie comedy that uplifts – funny and smart, totally trying to be cool and succeeding, and heartfelt to boot.
75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Comedy comes from an exaggeration of reality, not reality itself -- and on that score, Diablo Cody's first screenplay gets high marks.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
The film's forced quirkiness constantly threatens to derail the entire enterprise, making this another minor American indie exercise in family eccentricity. But it keeps being put back on track by the apparently effortless performance of a great young actress.
75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
It is certainly the feel-good movie of the season.
75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Diablo and director Jason Reitman never undercut Juno, whom Page brings to a fully rounded life (no pun intended) that verges on the frightening: Her vulnerable center doesn't belie her formidable exterior -- it just makes her more than a sitcom-patter machine.
75
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
If a woman had not in fact certifiably written the picture, I might have thought that Lester Bangs had come back from the dead to pen an account of the teen years of his ideal mate.
75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Juno comes on all wisecracking and aren't-we-clever, but don't be surprised if you find yourself getting choked up -- with happy tears -- by the end.
70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
What sets this engaging little movie above the pack of glib, brittle or sickly-sweet teen comedies is the clear eye it casts on the suburban American family, while stoutly defending that battered institution’s elastic ability to adapt.
70
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Jason Reitman follows his pitch-perfect satire "Thank You for Smoking" with another adventurous comedy, though here the cleverness can be grating; the movie is distinctive for its complicated emotions.
60
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
It’s the writer, Diablo Cody, and the director, Jason Reitman, who have screws loose. Or maybe they’re just desperate to make their film a chick "Rushmore" or "Garden State."
58
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The movie has been hailed and marketed as this year's Little Miss Sunshine, but it has none of that movie's empathy and comic surprise. Too much of it is like a subpar episode of Freaks and Geeks, padded out to 92 minutes with pseudo-witty dialogue.
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