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Screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman make Juno the marvelously un-still center of a wistfully acerbic comedy that qualifies as a feminized version of Knocked Up.
Fierce without being cruel, sweet without becoming saccharine, and never short of hilarious, it's not only the best comedy of the year, but one of the best films, period.
Juno is the best movie of the year. It's the best screenplay of the year, and it features the best actress of the year working with the best acting ensemble of the year.
The best thing about this movie is that for all its wiseacre badinage, it's utterly believable about the most basic of human situations.
Juno isn't a film made in the bell jar of unlikely reality that is, far too often, Hollywood: It's a film whose attention to real-life detail is so fine, audiences will be hopelessly and happily lost in its story from the first frame.
Juno is unerring, compassionate and funny as heck.
Sadly, while Juno may be able to carry a big bun in her oven, this film can't quite bear the heavy burden of expectation so well.
Indie film has the same success rate as Hollywood spectacle and for the same reason--reliance on well worn stereotypes and cliché--but it's the good stuff that comes along that makes all the dreck worth sitting through. Juno is the good stuff.
'Juno' is on some counts unrealistic and does not probe deeply, but it has undeniable charm.
Ellen Page's performance is the key to Juno's journey, and she unerringly nuances her character's blithe self-assuredness with just the right notes of uncertainty and innocence.
Juno is the best kind of comedy: one that makes you laugh, but not at the expense of your emotions.
One of the best films of the year.
Jason Reitman directs Juno with just the light touch it needs, and Page is surrounded by terrific supporting performances all around. This could be the sleeper hit of the year.
Even if you knew nothing of Juno going in, it's easy to pick up on the fact that the movie's voice is unlike any you've heard in a while -- it's totally fresh, in every sense of the word.
Right from the beginning when Juno is chugging away on Sunny D, we want to see watch she will say and do next.
The fact that the film deals with teenage pregnancy - and doesn't preach at all - is a feat of filmmaking.
Juno is a great little movie, and its quirky, intelligent approach to teenage characters could teach a thing or two to the makers of teen horror flicks.
Being the hipster movie of the year presents a couple of problems. One is that hipsters are kind of annoying.
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