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TV tonight: the great pandemic drama you might have missed

Station Eleven comes to Sky Atlantic, starring Himesh Patel and Mackenzie Davis. Plus: Boris Johnson’s Ukraine documentary. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Circle Mirror Transformation review – a heart-first play of human connection

Logie winner Rebecca Gibney leads a suite of strong performances in Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s gentle, generous comedy set in a community centre drama class

The Guardian - AU

Independent Spirit Awards 2025: Oscar favorite 'Anora' sweeps top honours; Shuchi Talati's 'Girls Will Be Girls' and Baby Reindeer win big

Sean Baker's "Anora" won best film, best director and best actor for Mikey Madison at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday in what could be a preview of next Sunday's Oscars: The film about a Brooklyn sex worker and her whirlwind affair with a Russian oligarch's son has emerged in…

The Times of India

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Janet Planet review – Annie Baker’s tender, perceptive mother-daughter drama

Julianne Nicholson and newcomer Zoe Ziegler are a dream team in the Pulitzer prize-winning US playwright’s richly cinematic film debut

The Guardian - UK

Janet Planet review: A theatrical, haunted portrait of an anguished mother and the daughter who adores her

Julianne Nicholson, best known for her roles in ‘Blonde’ and ‘Mare of Easttown’, radiates fierce intelligence and self-possession as a woman who makes up the entirety of her 11-year-old’s world

The Independent UK

Turn on, tune in … fathom humanity: Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker on her hippy film debut

The writer has made the leap into film with Janet Planet, about a mother and daughter drifting apart on a hippy commune. She talks about how it echoes her own upbringing – and why her younger self would be horrified

The Guardian - UK

Janet Planet review – mother-daughter relationship unfolds in dreamy summer haze

Julianne Nicholson stars in playwright Annie Baker’s languidly charming and tasteful debut feature about a girl’s increasingly fraught holiday at home

The Guardian - UK

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'Janet Planet' Is the Latest Must-See Entry in the Mother-Daughter Movie Canon

The sweet A24 movie marks the feature debut of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker.

Marie Claire

Playwright Annie Baker Makes Directorial Debut With 'Janet Planet'

Annie Baker's debut film 'Janet Planet' delves into mother-daughter dynamics in rural Massachusetts, reflecting her unique storytelling style.

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The week in theatre: Infinite Life; The Homecoming; Pacific Overtures – review

Chronic illness is captured to extraordinary effect in Annie Baker’s slow yet absorbing new play. Elsewhere, snarling Pinter lacks bite, while the songs eclipse all in rarely revived Sondheim

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Infinite Life at the National Theatre review: Annie Baker's new play is exquisitely acted and intensely humane

American playwright Annie Baker's fourth show at the National is about the way we seek connection and meaning

The Guardian - US

Janet Planet review – playwright Annie Baker’s delicate debut film

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

The Guardian - US

Infinite Life review – Annie Baker’s latest production is timely but uneven

The Pulitzer-winning playwright’s drama follows a group of characters at a mysterious health retreat and is as audacious as it is unsteady

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