Mother and daughter Janet (Julianne Nicholson) and Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) share a slow New England summer in Janet Planet. Amid the current crop of summer movies, I can’t think of one that captures the ...

The first thing we hear from the 11-year-old Lacy in playwright Annie Baker’s contemplative yet cold-to-the-touch film debut “Janet Planet” is that she will kill herself. Okay, perhaps some context is ...

“Janet Planet,” the stunning debut film by Annie Baker, one of the most marvelously inventive playwrights of her generation, might strike some as exceptionally quiet. Dialogue is used sparingly, not ...

For years, Julianne Nicholson has been the other Julianne (to Moore's Julianne). But with each successive performance, including in the 2021 series "Mare of Eastown," she has established her own ...

Annie Baker’s plays present characters who, if not miserable, are not far off, in circumstances to which they would mostly rather not be confined, but are. For another “not,” one might add that her ...

A small, keenly observed drama with a rich eye for detail and a knowing sense of its place in the world, "Janet Planet" isn't going to shake your foundation, but it may make you exhale a deep sigh of ...

Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler, in JANET PLANET. Courtesy of A24 In JANET PLANET, Julianne Nicholson plays Janet, the warming, single mother “sun” around which her daughter, 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe ...

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