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A decade after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with "The Flick," the playwright Annie Baker is conquering movies.

The Pulitzer prize-winning playwright’s muted, yet lingering, first film follows Julianne Nicholson’s single mother in the 90s

A24Janet Planet is a journey to a rural Western Massachusetts world of affectation, all twee decorations, eccentric knick-knacks, self-conscious silences and pauses, and torpid nostalgic drama. The directorial debut of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker, the film—showing at this year’s New York Film Festival—operates in a single, precious sub-Kelly Reichardt register, its every second marked by studied images, sounds, and performances. Gently quirky to the point o...

Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker delivers a captivating debut with "Janet Planet," starring Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler. Movie review.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s directorial debut at the New York Film Festival is weighed down by its pretentiousness.

When it focuses on its sixth-grader, it's frequently stunning. When it pauses for adult talk, it slows way down. Our Janet Planet review:

About halfway through playwright Annie Baker’s self-assured and pitch-perfect directorial debut Janet Planet, 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) rolls over in bed and turns to her mother Janet (Julianne Nicholson) with an innocent prompt. “You know what’s funny?” she asks. “Every moment of my life is hell.” At such a gentle moment, in such a casual

When Janet Planet focuses on its sixth-grader protagonist, it's frequently stunning. When it pauses for adult talk, it slows way down.

Warner Bros. Pictures dropped the trailer for Kevin Costner's two-part "theatrical event" called "Horizon" on Thursday, and damn ... it looks good.

Everything to know about 4-part movie series.