Opiniões dos críticos

What Baker’s inaugural feature lacks in grand spectacle, it makes up for in emotional veracity and an authentic portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship.

Baker’s tingling delicacy of touch makes it a subtly distinctive experience: it’s a film I already looked forward to revisiting while tiptoeing through it the first time.

An impressively crafted debut powered by strong and authentic perfomances, Janet Planet paints childhood as a series of disconnected sense memories and half-formed emotions. It feels slight and random at times, and a little overlong at almost two hours, but cumulatively adds up to a charming little midsummer dream of a movie.

Janet Planet, the kind of luminous portrait of a summer where nothing happens and yet everything happens... It’s a perfect coming-of-age movie...

Like a snapshot of a time of innocence, Janet Planet makes you ponder those complex scenarios you couldn’t understand when you were a kid, whether they were fights your parents had or the inner struggles of strangers.

She [Baker] re-arrives fully formed as a film artist, with a developed and stunningly self-assured visual language bolstered by unhurried confidence behind the camera. This is not just one of the great films of its year, but one of the finest first films in the annals of the medium.

Janet Planet is a welcome rebuttal to the dominant modes of popular art – the trauma plot, or our overemphasis on narrative – if not always the most compelling to actually watch.

Janet Planet never quite broadens beyond the specifics of these characters and its rural period milieu to the kind of universal profundity that made the best of Baker’s plays feel like they’re speaking to issues much deeper than their mundane conversations and actions indicate on the surface.

Gently quirky to the point of exasperation, it gazes daintily at yesteryear, yet the only past it makes one pine for are the two hours prior to its commencement.

Every line, every beat of Ziegler and Nicholson's performances — and yes, every silence — contributes to this thoroughly grounded, thoroughly in-the-moment portrait of Janet and Lacy's lives. This is a film that washes over you in a wave of quiet subtleties, marking a profoundly striking debut.

The result is both disarming and odd, a film both lovely for its observational aptitude and at times mildly annoying in its smarty-pants conversational cleverness. Whatever else you can say, it’s an absolute original.

[T]his intimate, emotionally expansive drama could be a critics’ darling. Arthouse crowds should be enthralled...