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Avg. Critic Score: 81 out of 100 Universal acclaim Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
14 Iffy for 14+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    A confluence of perfection in every aspect of the film. Read full review

  • 100
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    With its original performances that can't be reduced to simplistic labels, Juno is charming, honest and terrifically acted. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    A fresh, quirky, unusually intelligent comedy. Read full review

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    A blithe charmer balanced somewhere between a life-should-be-so-neat fairy tale and a life's-a-real-bitch tragicomedy, leaves political debate at the ticket counter and focuses solely on what it's like for Juno MacGuff to be Juno MacGuff. Read full review

  • 90
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Not only gives us a superb new cast of believable characters, it transcends its own genre. Only superficially a teen comedy, the movie redounds with postmodern -- but emotionally genuine -- gravitas. Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Juno respects the idiosyncrasies of its characters rather than exaggerating them or holding them up for ridicule. Read full review

  • 88
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    There's a special kick that comes in finding a new star. So step up, Ellen Page, and take your bows. Read full review

  • 80
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Cody's dialogue has a definite rhythm and Reitman directs his actors to deliver the words in the rapid-fire precision of a '30s screwball comedy. Indeed all scenes develop a rhythm and inner logic that bring the movie to often startling revelations and insights. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    Deceptively superficial at the outset, the movie deepens into something poignant and unexpected. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    An ultra-smart-mouthed comedy about a planned adoption that goes weirdly awry. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 14+ Brilliant teen pregnancy comedy, but iffy for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this well-written, warmhearted comedy tackles a very serious subject: teen pregnancy. It has real bite, as well as frank sex talk and some swearing, which makes it iffy for younger viewers. But there's plenty here to appeal to older teens -- not the least of which is Superbad's Michael Cera, who co-stars. Unlike a lot of teen-centric Hollywood fare, the film doesn't condescend. Even its treatment of teen pregnancy, which may appear cavalier at first, comes across as sensitive and mature in the end.
  • Families can talk about teen sex and pregnancy. Can you think of other movies and TV shows that have tackled these subjects? How does this film approach the topics differently? Does Juno's journey seem realistic? What about how she handles her situation? Do you think things would be likely to work out similarly in real life? What are your family's beliefs about teen sex? Are teens and parents in agreement or not?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Teens engage in premarital sex and don't appear to treat their virginity very seriously. Serious issues, such as abortion, are treated with irreverence. But little of it feels disrespectful; rather, it appears to reflect a general sense of hyperawareness among today's teens. Despite her jaded exterior, Juno is intelligent, resilient, and resourceful, and ultimately acts out of concern and love.
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence: Nothing but verbal sparring.
  • sex false3 Sex: Plenty of talk -- this is, after all, a movie about a teenager who gets pregnant -- but little is seen onscreen. There are flashes of a 16-year-old's bare legs and hints that she and her partner have removed their underwear, but there's no real nudity (though the boy takes his shirt off, the girl keeps hers on). Words like "humping" are bandied about to discuss hookups, some of which are described as "magnificent." A young couple kisses tenderly.
  • language false5 Language: Strong for a PG-13. Language is both colorful (lots of variations on the words "s--t," as well as uses of "a--hole," "bastard," and "dick") and creative ("f--ketty"). Juno flashes the finger once.
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: Juno drinks from a bottle of Sunny D (label clearly visible); mentions of Smirnoff Ice, Boons, Adderall, Sonic Youth, Pellegrino, and Vitamin water. Much swooning over guitar brands like Les Paul and Fender.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Discussion of both drinking and taking drugs, but no glimpses of actual use of either. Juno mentions selling her Adderall (an ADD drug).
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