Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- [New] | Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: Coming-of-age drama focusing on a sad 11-year-old girl coping with her relationship with her mother.
- Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer/director Annie Baker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, makes her feature filmmaking debut from the unique perspective of a lonely little girl jostling for her mother’s attention when that mother attracts lovers like bees to honey
- Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: Baker leans into the leisurely pace of warm afternoons that blend the one into the other, heightening the blurred sense of pace through elliptical editing.
- Katie Smith-Wong @ Flickfeast
- Excerpt: Alice Baker’s debut directorial delivers layers and contemplative performances from Nicholson and Ziegler but Janet Planet‘s slowness and isolated nature ultimately suffocate its poignancy, leaving its protagonists wandering for closure.
