Mother and daughter Janet (Julianne Nicholson) and Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) share a slow New England summer in Janet Planet. Amid the current crop of summer movies, I can’t think of one that captures the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

On the surface, “Janet Planet” sounds like a charming story about a single mother seen through the eyes of her 11-year-old daughter. Lacy (Zoe Ziegler), is a lone wolf — or at least she sees herself ...

Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler in "Janet Planet." In Janet Planet, silence is everything. Playwright Annie Baker's directorial debut thrives in the stretches of time between words, entire scenes ...

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 ...

Zoe Ziegler and Julianne Nicholson in director Annie Baker's "Janet Planet." (Courtesy A24) In a bizarre quirk of timing, two movies by female playwrights making their directorial debuts open in the ...

June has been a busy month for Oscar-winning studio A24, which is gearing up to release Janet Planet just one week after Tuesday came to theaters. Luckily, we have you covered on all the ways you can ...