• Starring: Alessandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz
  • Summary: When Madeleine (Davidtz), a British-born dealer in regional, "outsider" art, travels from Chicago to North Carolina to pursue a local painter for her gallery, she and her brand-new, younger husband George (Nivola) extend the trip to include an introduction to his family. Madeleine confronts the difficulty of two cultures colliding, and discovers the tumultuous outcome as these separate ways of life must coexist. (Sony Pictures Classics) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 34
  2. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. This low-key drama is a miracle of mood, atmosphere, and sensitivity.
  2. 100
    Junebug is a great film because it is a true film. It humbles other films that claim to be about family secrets and eccentricities. It understands that families are complicated and their problems are not solved during a short visit, just in time for the film to end. Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.
  3. 60
    Morrison brings an amazingly sure hand to MacLachlan's prickly screenplay.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 40
  2. Negative: 5 out of 40
  1. RonaldM.
    10
    This is a great film. In the tradition of Jean Renior and Robert Altman it captures the nuances of life. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad. It is as unpredictable as life. Expand
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  2. KevinM.
    5
    I give it a based on what it was trying to achieve IF..AND ONLY IF..you KNOW you are going to sit through a "film" and an attempt at art. It's like emotionless vignettes all strung together to give you some sense of ..(what that is and why you are asking "what that is.." is the point entirely) If you get my meaning, this film has no meaning. No sense of purpose, GREAT ACTORS and absolute wasted talent Davidtz is just stellar but the lack of dialogue passed off as artisitic drama is just ridiculous. I go this movie based on the Metacritic rating alone (which is the ONLY way I manage to see good films BTW) and I was dissappointed!On it's own merit the film is a weak 4. I suggest all the top heavy critiques be reordered and weighted by .8 so that the real score is more like 53-57 Honestly, I appreciated DOMINO more since i went into that at least knowing it was crap. Expand
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  3. PRay
    3
    So till, that it almost stops on several occassions. No dialogue when you want there to be, I just didnt know what the hell I was watching it for, and didnt feel like it affected me, or had anything to say, wasted my time! Well acted though by all, and well, that it. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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