Janet Planet

PG-13

In Theaters Fri Jun 21

1h 50m

Drama

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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. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker captures a child's experience of time passing, and the ineffability of a daughter falling out of love with her mother, in this singularly sublime film debut.

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

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.

Rated: 5/5

Feb 28, 2024

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Charles Bramesco

Little White Lies

This is not just one of the great films of its year, but one of the finest first films in the annals of the medium.

Oct 10, 2023

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Adrian Horton

Guardian

Janet Planet is a welcome rebuttal to the dominant modes of popular art – the trauma plot, or our overemphasis on narrative – if not always the most compelling to actually watch.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 9, 2023

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Stephen Dalton

The Film Verdict

Pulitzer-winning stage dramatist Annie Baker paints childhood as a midsummer daydream full of tragicomic adult behaviour in her droll, charming film debut.

Mar 10, 2024

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Chase Hutchinson

Collider

Much as the title suggests, it is like we are being drawn into the orbit of something immense. Conversely, and this is crucial to its understated beauty, it is also something small. In wondrous detail, it shows how one person can become an entire world.

Rated: 9/10

Mar 4, 2024

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

It makes some keen observations on the travails of childhood and of a single mom raising a needy child.

Rated: B

Nov 17, 2023

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Synopsis

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. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker captures a child's experience of time passing, and the ineffability of a daughter falling out of love with her mother, in this singularly sublime film debut.

Director: Annie Baker
Screenwriter: Annie Baker
Distributor: A24
Rating: PG-13 (Brief Strong Language|Thematic Elements|Some Drug Use)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 21, 2024, Wide
Runtime: 1h 50m