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...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.
A quiet journey into the heartland, and the heart.
Thanks to Adams' performance and strong story, it makes for a mildly entertaining Southern-fried experience.
The adult tensions and the tone take us to a place remembered so vividly that even if we don't know this corner of the South, we've somehow lived there or at least passed through.
Brimming with bright dialogue, complex characters and moments of sheer aching sweetness, it's Chekhov with a side of red-eye gravy.
This brilliantly detailed, richly painted portrait lingers long in the memory.
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
At every moment when "Junebug" could choose dramatic cliché, even with Ashley's pregnancy, it's beautifully subtle. A poetic, graceful tale about the comforts and oddities of returning home to family.
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
Junebug annoyed me while in the theater, and annoys me even more as I write about it.
Amy Adams is simply magical, guileless and throbbing, sunniness fraught with desperation
Odd, insightful movie that's best for mature teens and up.
the retiring director with the handlebar moustache offers no interview, preferring his actors to speak for him and his film to speak for itself.
From dinner-table silences, to nuances of Baptist vocabulary, to 'colorful' displays of Southern imagination, these people are three-dimensional and compelling.
To get a good idea of what to expect, think Hee Haw presented as a Shakespearean melodrama.
To get a good idea of what to expect, think Hee Haw presented as a Shakespearean melodrama.
Not since...My Cousin Vinny has there been a more charming class-clash comedy-drama than Junebug.
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