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OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh |
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| "coming-of-age meets coming-to-term, in a film that is refreshingly frank about sex and love, pokes fun at the clashes between age and class, and, even more subversively...celebrates the pregnant possibilities of the non-nuclear family." |
| musicOMH.com |
| Anton Bitel |
C- | "If this is where Indie comedy is headed, I guess I should find some other shenanigans to get into. Right, homeskillet?" |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
4/5 | "Juno is a snarky afterschool special for the Pinkberry crowd." |
| PopMatters |
| Bill Gibron |
D- | "The artificiality of this beast is suffocating, choking itself into a stupor of unlikable characters, synthetic emotions, and overtly precious direction. "Juno" is pregnant alright: with overwrought execution and pedestrian intentions." |
| DVDTalk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
4/5 | "Witty and honest." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Chris Cabin |
A- | "It isn't often that a romantic comedy comes along with as much originality, vitality and biting satire as screenwriter Diablo Cody's wickedly funny Juno." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
71/100 | "Skin-deep treatment of teen pregnancy, but keep your eyes on Ellen Page; she's worth the price of admission." |
| Apollo Guide |
| Dan Jardine |
4/5 | "A triumphant conclusion to the unplanned pregnancy trilogy." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Dan Lybarger |
1/5 | "What a hideous piece of faux-hipster crap." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
3.5/4 | "Cody's wit and imagination are seemingly endless." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
3/4 | "...an impressive step forward for director Jason Reitman..." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
B | "Totally solid teen comedy." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
3/4 | "Light on plot but plentiful in moments of keen human observation, Juno is authentic and, oh, so winning." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
4/5 | "Una comedia fresca, inteligente y tierna que aborda temas delicados de manera desdramatizada e irónica. Excelente elenco (empezando por la increíble Ellen Page) y banda sonora." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
A- | "One of the year's snappiest, snarkiest, most quotable comedies." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
4/4 | "Has all the rhythms that made films like Little Miss Sunshine and Garden State so beloved by audiences and critics alike, but invents its own rhyme to buck familiarity thanks to its brilliantly funny and exceptionally wise screenplay by Diablo Cody." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B | "I hope this one makes a few careers." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
B | "I hope this one makes a few careers." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
4/5 | "A grounded, sweet, funny, and excellent dramedy about smart teenagers and the world they live in that doesn't always make sense..." |
| Film Threat |
| Felix Vasquez Jr. |
3/4 | "Cunningly perceptive and hip in its irresistible skepticism about the comforts and uncertainties of love, Juno is enchantingly bright and breezy in its effecting resonance." |
| World Voice News |
| Frank Ochieng |
B+ | "Almost impudently wry and sassy but with an unexpected vein of seriousness and poignancy, this is a crowd-pleaser of the best sort." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
5/5 | "One of the brightest and funniest comedies of the year with a delicious performance by Ellen Page as a precocious and big-hearted teenager on a mission of love." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
B- | "A quirky comic indie with a too-too-clever screenplay, dialogue that seems tailored to the club-kid generation, and a sentimental streak a mile wide." |
| Modern Fabulousity |
| Gabriel Shanks |
C+ | "Isn't it time the Gilmore Girls crowd had a movie about teen pregnancy to feel good about and call their own?" |
| Cinepinion |
| Henry Stewart |
3.5/4 | "Juno, directed by Jason Reitman, is smart, witty, and engaging -- three ingredients that, when applied to any film, comprise a recipe for success." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3.5/4 | "[Page] plays each moment without ego and with total candor, and that's ultimately the secret to Juno's success." |
| Perihelion Journal |
| Jay Antani |
3/4 | "Sweet, sassy, and satisfying." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
8/10 | "Juno turns out to be about hope and understanding. Everyone's heart is in the right place here, and maybe that's why the movie wins out." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Jeffrey Chen |
33/100 | "That Juno has been heralded for its realistic portrayal of a teen girl's point of view demonstrates how poorly the demographic has been represented on screen." |
| MovieMartyr.com |
| Jeremy Heilman |
7/10 | "Coupled with the witty script, Page's terrific performance, and a quirkily fun soundtrack, Reitman would really have to try hard to mess things up. Thankfully he doesn't, and the result is an enjoyable, highly entertaining, and even occasionally touching" |
| Screen It! |
| Jim Judy |
4/4 | "What's sure to be the breakout indie hit of 2007 (and deservedly so) establishes the voice of screenwriter Diablo Cody and the career of young actress Ellen Page." |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
9/10 | "I can't remember the last time I was pulled into a film this quickly and this deeply." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
3.5/4 | "She is a wonderful character in her own right. I'd watch a movie about her going to the movies. But Cody's conviction is to get Juno pregnant so I'll watch a movie about that." |
| Bangitout.com |
| Jordan Hiller |
5/5 | "Only "quirky" in that it is so very sincere...please go see it." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
| "If Juno's charms win out in the end, it isn't without a slight residue of uncertainty suggesting we've just had the latest Napoleon Dynamite clone foisted upon us." |
| UGO |
| Keith Uhlich |
4.0/4.0 | "... definitely one of the better films this year thanks to Page and Reitman, and it'll be hard to wait and see what this actress and this director pull out of their hats next." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
| "It's not as good as you heard." |
| Pretentious Musings |
| Kevin Koehler |
C+ | "...an immature, if fitfully entertaining
work." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
3/4 | "First-time screenwriter Cody Diablo's gently comic, different-for-girls tale of a pregnant, hyper-verbal teenager is the distaff answer to the testosterone-fueled hijinks of movies like Knocked Up and Superbad." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
4/4 | "Could have played up the subversive, satirical possibilities of the scenario, but [Diablo Cody's] first script is too smart, her affection for her characters too strong, to mistreat the story and its inhabitants so." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
6/10 | "It is a little disquieting that the film takes things as lightly as it does and the ending just does not feel sufficient to the situation." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
| "[A] heightened, brightened, skip-a-dee-doo-dah glide through one of life's big goalposts: not so much growing up but growing out. And I don't mean bellywise, either..." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
4/5 | "Jason Reitman is shaping up to be quite the talented filmmaker. Just as he proved with his previous effort, Thank You for Smoking, the merging of comedic elements never offset the dramatic side." |
| Bronsonfive |
| Michael Ferraro |
3.5/5 | "Much of the dialogue sparkles with wit and humanity." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
4/4 | "Definitely one of my favorite films of the last five years." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B+ | "Cody's script is filled with smart, funny, very specific lines that define the characters and tell the story." |
| Beliefnet |
| Nell Minow |
C- | "An obnoxious fantasy vision of teendom slathered in self-satisfied snark." |
| Lessons of Darkness |
| Nick Schager |
4/5 | "Seria fantástico se as pessoas conversassem, em seu dia-a-dia, como os personagens de Juno, construindo diálogos que combinam uma estrutura elegante com um conteúdo rico em referências e um humor cortante e preciso." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
5/5 | "It not only more than lives up to all of the advanced hype, it is actually even better than the advanced word has been suggesting." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Peter Sobczynski |
3.5/5 | "This comedy about teen pregnancy is extremely entertaining, packed with dialog that's rather too smart and snappy." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
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OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh |
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