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Jul 3, 2024 · In one of the funniest, most heartwarming scenes in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut film, Janet Planet, 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) asks her mom Janet (Julianne...
Jun 20, 2024 · The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Annie Baker’s first film Janet Planet is a delicate memory piece set in early-1990s hippie Massachusetts, following a sensitive, quirky 11-year-old named...
Jun 25, 2024 · Richard Brody reviews the playwright Annie Baker’s first feature film, “Janet Planet,” starring Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, and Will Patton.
Jun 17, 2024 · ‘Infinite Life’ playwright Annie Baker switches mediums with her sneakily expansive debut film, ‘Janet Planet,’ about a possessive mother-daughter relationship.
- Jackson Mchenry
- Critic
Jun 24, 2024 · The world Baker creates for her characters is so rich, warm, and beautiful. By the time character actor Elias Koteas arrives as Avi (another potential lover for Janet), the film is already winding down toward its poetic conclusion. It’s bittersweet to see our time with Janet and Lacy to end.
Jun 27, 2024 · The celebrated playwright Annie Baker, here writing and directing her first film, has uncanny powers of observation and a talent for evoking time and place.
Aug 30, 2023 · Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Annie Baker proves herself as a born filmmaker with this lyrical tale of a single mother and her curious daughter, premiering this weekend in Telluride.
