I would recommend the film for Amy Adams's performance alone. The Catch Me If You Can star plays Ashley, an eternally optimistic young pregnant woman, doing her best to make the most out of a bad situation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 31, 2024

A bad movie, especially in regards to its script. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 12, 2020

An observant, literate slice of Southern life.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

It could have been an exercise in "let's mock the provincials..." But the writer and the director (Angus McLachlan, Phil Morrison) are both from North Carolina, so each side in this meeting of opposites is both humanised and demonised.

| Oct 7, 2018

You can call Junebug an unwanted, but much needed homecoming, mostly celebrated by the hearty welcome of George's sister-in-law Ashley Johnsten, played by Amy Adams.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 12, 2017

Morrison and MacLachlan mine the clash of cultures for comedy, but there's an undertow of sadness to their film - and Adams's touching performance as George's naïve but well-meaning, heavily pregnant sister-in-law captures this perfectly

| Apr 26, 2011

At every moment when "Junebug" could choose dramatic clich, even with Ashley's pregnancy, it's beautifully subtle. A poetic, graceful tale about the comforts and oddities of returning home to family.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 23, 2010

The humor here is expectedly quirky but it feels earned thanks to writer MacLachlan and director Morrison's honestly rendered observations of family and small-town life

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2010

Junebug annoyed me while in the theater, and annoys me even more as I write about it.

| Original Score: 26/100 | Sep 26, 2009

Amy Adams is simply magical, guileless and throbbing, sunniness fraught with desperation

| Sep 1, 2009

A wonderful bittersweet dramedy that deserves to be seen.

| Apr 29, 2009

...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.

| Nov 30, 2007

From dinner-table silences, to nuances of Baptist vocabulary, to 'colorful' displays of Southern imagination, these people are three-dimensional and compelling.

| Original Score: A | Sep 12, 2007

To get a good idea of what to expect, think Hee Haw presented as a Shakespearean melodrama.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 28, 2007

Not since...My Cousin Vinny has there been a more charming class-clash comedy-drama than Junebug.

| Mar 1, 2007

[Adams is] a knockout and makes the film, despite its shortcomings, deeply pleasurable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

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| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2006

An arthouse Meet The Parents, Junebug explores the same territory with greater subtlety and complexity, and more chuckles and quiet smiles, instead of big comedy routines.

| Jun 21, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2006

Um filme que exige ser visto mais de uma vez, no mnimo para que possamos ter o prazer de rever atuaes to ricas em detalhes.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 22, 2006