Julianne Nicholson as Janet and Zoe Ziegler as Lacy sitting together while watching a play in a still from Janet Planet. Image via A24 Right out of the gate in Janet Planet, the spectacular feature ...

For years, Julianne Nicholson has been the other Julianne (to Moore's Julianne). But with each successive performance, including in the 2021 series "Mare of Eastown," she has established her own ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Janet Planet,” the stunning debut film by Annie Baker, one of the most marvelously inventive playwrights of her generation, might ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the surface, “Janet Planet” sounds like a charming story about a single mother seen through the eyes of her 11-year-old ...

Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler, in JANET PLANET. Courtesy of A24 In JANET PLANET, Julianne Nicholson plays Janet, the warming, single mother “sun” around which her daughter, 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Annie Baker has long been a master of silence; her work delights in long, sometimes torturous pauses, letting audiences fill in emotional gaps themselves. I first ...

The remarkable mother-daughter drama Janet Planet opens with a wonderfully staged comic moment. It is late at night in the Massachusetts countryside, circa 1991, and a redheaded girl in round glasses ...

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Janet (Julianne Nicholson) urges her daughter Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) to have her current mental breakdown in a less public place. With its hippie-like artist communes, trippy discussions about the cosmos ...

“Janet Planet,” the stunning debut film by Annie Baker, one of the most marvelously inventive playwrights of her generation, might strike some as exceptionally quiet. Dialogue is used sparingly, not ...

Few directorial debuts have arrived as fully-formed as Annie Baker's Janet Planet. Set in rural Massachusetts in the early '90s, the gentle coming-of-age drama traces the relationship between an ...