Kathy Fennessy Seattle Film Blog Jul 31, 2024 3/4

I would recommend the film for Amy Adams's performance alone. The Catch Me If You Can star plays Ashley, an eternally optimistic young pregnant woman, doing her best to make the most out of a bad situation.

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Alberto Abuín Espinof Feb 12, 2020

A bad movie, especially in regards to its script. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Ellie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Jun 5, 2019 2.5/4

An observant, literate slice of Southern life.

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Nigel Andrews Financial Times Oct 7, 2018

It could have been an exercise in "let's mock the provincials..." But the writer and the director (Angus McLachlan, Phil Morrison) are both from North Carolina, so each side in this meeting of opposites is both humanised and demonised.

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Candice Frederick Reel Talk Online Sep 12, 2017 B+

You can call Junebug an unwanted, but much needed homecoming, mostly celebrated by the hearty welcome of George's sister-in-law Ashley Johnsten, played by Amy Adams.

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Jason Best Movie Talk Apr 26, 2011

Morrison and MacLachlan mine the clash of cultures for comedy, but there's an undertow of sadness to their film - and Adams's touching performance as George's naïve but well-meaning, heavily pregnant sister-in-law captures this perfectly

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Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal Sep 23, 2010 3.5/4

At every moment when "Junebug" could choose dramatic clich, even with Ashley's pregnancy, it's beautifully subtle. A poetic, graceful tale about the comforts and oddities of returning home to family.

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Jay Antani Cinema Writer Aug 17, 2010 3/4

The humor here is expectedly quirky but it feels earned thanks to writer MacLachlan and director Morrison's honestly rendered observations of family and small-town life

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Gabe Leibowitz Film and Felt Sep 26, 2009 26/100

Junebug annoyed me while in the theater, and annoys me even more as I write about it.

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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Sep 1, 2009

Amy Adams is simply magical, guileless and throbbing, sunniness fraught with desperation

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Apr 29, 2009

A wonderful bittersweet dramedy that deserves to be seen.

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Mark Bourne Film.com Nov 30, 2007

...one of many reasons to love Junebug is how often it offers us spaces to fill in ourselves, the faith it shows in handing us small puzzles -- Eugene's hand-carved bird, for instance -- to chuckle over or think on afterward.

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Jeffrey Overstreet JeffreyOverstreet.com (Ghost.io) Sep 12, 2007 A

From dinner-table silences, to nuances of Baptist vocabulary, to 'colorful' displays of Southern imagination, these people are three-dimensional and compelling.

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Kam Williams Upstage Magazine May 28, 2007 1/4

To get a good idea of what to expect, think Hee Haw presented as a Shakespearean melodrama.

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Harry Haun Film Journal International Mar 1, 2007

Not since...My Cousin Vinny has there been a more charming class-clash comedy-drama than Junebug.

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Peter Calder New Zealand Herald Dec 30, 2006 4/5

[Adams is] a knockout and makes the film, despite its shortcomings, deeply pleasurable.

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Joseph Proimakis Movies for the Masses Sep 10, 2006 4/5

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Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile Jun 21, 2006

An arthouse Meet The Parents, Junebug explores the same territory with greater subtlety and complexity, and more chuckles and quiet smiles, instead of big comedy routines.

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Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Apr 22, 2006 5/5

Um filme que exige ser visto mais de uma vez, no mnimo para que possamos ter o prazer de rever atuaes to ricas em detalhes.

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Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness Mar 22, 2006 B+

Delicately avoids Hollywood's typical condescending caricatures of those who dwell below the Mason-Dixon line.

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