Julianne Nicholson as Janet and Zoe Ziegler as Lacy sitting together while watching a play in a still from Janet Planet. Image via A24 Right out of the gate in Janet Planet, the spectacular feature ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Young Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) orbits her mother Janet (Julianne Nicholson), but she's not the only one in this rich coming-of-age tale. In the opening moments of “Janet Planet,” Annie Baker‘s understated ...

Annie Baker’s debut feature film is a tiny masterpiece — a perfect coming-of-age story for both a misfit tween and her mother. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

“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 ...

The remarkable mother-daughter drama Janet Planet opens with a wonderfully staged comic moment. It is late at night in the Massachusetts countryside, circa 1991, and a redheaded girl in round glasses ...

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 ...

Few directorial debuts have arrived as fully-formed as Annie Baker's Janet Planet. Set in rural Massachusetts in the early '90s, the gentle coming-of-age drama traces the relationship between an ...

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