Juno Critic Reviews

That smart, hip, human comedy you've been waiting for all year.Read the full review

A fresh, quirky, unusually intelligent comedy.Read the full review

A blithe charmer balanced somewhere between a life-should-be-so-neat fairy tale and a life's-a-real-bitch tragicomedy, leaves political debate at the ticket counter and focuses solely on what it's like for Juno MacGuff to be Juno MacGuff.Read the full review

Deceptively superficial at the outset, the movie deepens into something poignant and unexpected.Read the full review

Juno has a great heroine and is blessed by a screenplay that doesn't try to do too much and finds the perfect ending.Read the full review

There's a special kick that comes in finding a new star. So step up, Ellen Page, and take your bows.Read the full review

A confluence of perfection in every aspect of the film.Read the full review

With a charismatic lead performance from Page and a plaintive score of indie-rock songs, many of them by Kimya Dawson of the Moldy Peaches, Juno seems poised to be the season's youth-culture hit.Read the full review

Cody's dialogue has a definite rhythm and Reitman directs his actors to deliver the words in the rapid-fire precision of a '30s screwball comedy. Indeed all scenes develop a rhythm and inner logic that bring the movie to often startling revelations and insights.Read the full review