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Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: This visit to the old homestead is worthwhile, if only to meet its unflappable, charismatic women. Read more
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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Adams is so pure-hearted and touching that she redeems the film, just as her character redeems, or tries to, the blighted lives around her. Read more
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: Junebug immerses itself in a part of the American experience Hollywood doesn't touch anymore, and has sharp, perceptive talents behind camera. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Every scene in this film is perfectly executed. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Brimming with bright dialogue, complex characters and moments of sheer aching sweetness, it's Chekhov with a side of red-eye gravy. Read more
Kathy Cano Murillo, Arizona Republic: Thanks to Adams' performance and strong story, it makes for a mildly entertaining Southern-fried experience. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Junebug is a textbook case of filmmakers who can't make up their minds about their characters; it's a failure of nerve disguised as dramatic ambiguity. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: 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 more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Thanks to newfangled things like TV and the Internet, small-town folks aren't as uniformly insulated as director Phil Morrison and screenwriter Angus McLachlan would have us believe. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: You may find yourself caught entrancingly off guard by the conflicting shades of love, suspicion, tradition, and mystery that infuse this tale of lost innocence, deep roots, and what it means to come from the world of the South. Read more
Mark Bourne, Film.com: ...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. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: With Junebug, it's what's inside that counts. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Morrison likes to cite the Japanese master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu as an influence, and you can feel his guiding hand throughout this remarkable debut feature. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: For all its specificity, we come away feeling as if we've walked in the shoes of all of these people at different points in our lives. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Junebug addresses familiar themes in an intriguingly understated way. Read more
David Edelstein, NPR's Fresh Air: It's hugely entertaining, it's spectacularly acted, and it pricks you in all kinds of places. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Morrison and his cast approach this familiar story with such understated intelligence, we don't even realize they've pulled the rug out from under the audience until we've tumbled to the floor, cliches scattered in pieces around us. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Phil Morrison does an impressive job with his big-screen directorial debut, although we can't figure out how he wants us to take Madeleine. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Phil Morrison's wise, bittersweet, beautifully acted comedy about a Southern homecoming envelops us in texture of a world the movies rarely visit. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: All the acting is so good, and the setting is so rightly observed, that Junebug emerges as one of the best pictures of the year. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: 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. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: In the end, we not only believe in the men and women populating the film, but feel along with them. By offering that experience, Junebug has done its job. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Junebug is a great film because it is a true film. It humbles other films that claim to be about family secrets and eccentricities. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Junebug gets under your skin. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: A quiet journey into the heartland, and the heart. Read more
Joe Leydon, Variety: Helmer Morrison and scripter Angus MacLachlan merely hint at long-festering estrangement that provides an ominously percolating undercurrent throughout scenes in the modest but spacious family home. Read more
Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: Morrison mostly succeeds in his attempt to show how secret knowledge can result in sudden violence as well as long-term, lived-in acceptance. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: With its wise understanding of the magnetic pull (and invisible polarities) of family, Junebug is an auspicious debut for Morrison. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: It's a quiet, funny, moving triumph, the kind of movie that gives 'interesting' a good name. Read more