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Avg. Critic Score: 80 out of 100 Universal acclaim Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
16 Iffy for 16+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Amy Adams in a performance as deep as it is delightful, is the film's heart and also its flaky, wonderstruck soul. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Junebug is a great film because it is a true film. It humbles other films that claim to be about family secrets and eccentricities. It understands that families are complicated and their problems are not solved during a short visit, just in time for the film to end. Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with. Read full review

  • 90
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    Manages to be one of the genuinely fresh discoveries of the summer, a little gem that deserves to become a big sleeper hit. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    A deceptively simple, deeply resonant story about the inherent loneliness of family, the odds against assimilation and the enormous distances that can divide two people. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Junebug has the feel of a good short story or novella. Read full review

  • 80
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    Not merely a sitcom of cultural clash. Screenwriter Angus Maclachlan has delicately etched a compelling portrait of a way of life whose decencies and simplicities are often dismissed as being "unsophisticated." Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    With its wise understanding of the magnetic pull (and invisible polarities) of family, Junebug is an auspicious debut for Morrison. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Junebug envelops us in texture of a world the movies rarely visit. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    If there's any justice at all at next year's Academy Awards, we have our first can't-miss nominee for best supporting actress: Amy Adams. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    Has a washed-out look that may be off-putting to auds who might otherwise enjoy the pic's uncondescending view of Southern characters and customs. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+ Odd, insightful movie best for mature teens+.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie includes sexual language (including references to genitalia) and imagery (brief images of a married couple making love and a young woman masturbating). Characters smoke, drink, and curse (including the f-word), and a couple of them use the n-word. A character is glimpsed on the toilet, through a doorway.
  • Families can talk about the representation of cultural differences, for instance, regional, gendered, and generational. How do such disparities lead to assumptions and assessments? How do the various characters resent or feel jealous of one another, for seeming happiness or success? How does the movie turn around your expectations of who understands the stakes of these family relationships? How does "outsider art" become metaphorical for characters' feelings of alienation or loneliness?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Characters make poor decisions, but the movie explores reasons and alternatives.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Violence depicted in paintings, a short fight between brothers.
  • sex false3 Sex: Some sexual situations (including brief masturbation), tastefully represented.
  • language false5 Language: Some cursing, including f-word.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Gallery owner wants to sell paintings, so marketplace is a theme.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Characters drink and smoke cigarettes.
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