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Releasing on Jun 21, 2024
- 2024
- PG-13
- A24
- 1 h 53 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- A24
- 1 h 53 m
Summary In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet.
- 2024
- PG-13
- A24
- 1 h 53 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- A24
- 1 h 53 m
Janet Planet
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Summary In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet.
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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91% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
84
91% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
9% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Baker’s tingling delicacy of touch makes it a subtly distinctive experience: it’s a film I already looked forward to revisiting while tiptoeing through it the first time.
There is nothing artificial here, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t mystery. It’s the mystery of people and their unusual behaviors and the way they can flit in and out of our lives and our consciousness.
The movie contains no non-diegetic music and even limits major camera movement to a relatively small handful of scenes. Nothing distracts from the tender wisdom of its unimpeachably unsentimental gaze and the vividness of its very specific New England milieu.
Just as credit must be given to Baker for how she so completely captures a moment in time and place, it is Nicholson who inhabits this world so naturally that you feel like you’re just peeking in on Janet’s life.
The many great scenes in Janet Planet underscore the frustrations of its few bad ones: Even an emotionally tumultuous childhood can be a lot more absorbing than the indulgences of the adult world.
Annie Baker’s spare dialogue style remains intact, with each line revealing of character and mood.
Operates in a single, precious sub-Kelly Reichardt register, its every second marked by studied images, sounds and performances.
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