Junebug Critic Reviews

Junebug is a great film because it is a true film. It humbles other films that claim to be about family secrets and eccentricities. It understands that families are complicated and their problems are not solved during a short visit, just in time for the film to end. Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.Read the full review

Amy Adams in a performance as deep as it is delightful, is the film's heart and also its flaky, wonderstruck soul.Read the full review

Manages to be one of the genuinely fresh discoveries of the summer, a little gem that deserves to become a big sleeper hit.Read the full review

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 the full review

It's hugely entertaining, it's spectacularly acted, and it pricks you in all kinds of places. Maybe the best thing is to see it and let it bug you, too.Read the full review

Junebug has the feel of a good short story or novella.Read the full review

Not merely a sitcom of cultural clash. Screenwriter Angus Maclachlan has delicately etched a compelling portrait of a way of life whose decencies and simplicities are often dismissed as being "unsophisticated."Read the full review

Junebug envelops us in texture of a world the movies rarely visit.Read the full review

With its wise understanding of the magnetic pull (and invisible polarities) of family, Junebug is an auspicious debut for Morrison.Read the full review