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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91ColliderErick MassotoColliderErick MassotoThe movie is one of those films that beautifully encapsulates life experiences, but breaks your heart in a way that you don’t immediately want to revisit it.
- 83Original-CinOriginal-CinIn the end, it’s a story about family coming together in the last moments of a loved one’s life and facing death with not only dignity but with honesty as well. A touching story.
- 75RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiWhile Juniper as a whole is not great, it has enough wit and intelligence to be better than it sounds. Most of all, it has Rampling, as captivating as ever; she proves once again that she can single-handedly take somewhat dubious material and make it eminently watchable.
- 60The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaThe New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaPredictably, their relationship softens up, but the film nevertheless maintains some of its prickly charm, in no small part because of the feisty Rampling, whose ice-queen persona here straddles bone-dry humor and withering tragedy.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreActor turned writer-director Matthew J. Saville’s debut feature makes for a dry, unemotional blend of dark comedy and co-dependency, scenic but desultory, even when Rampling is at her best.
- 50Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinSaville too often skims the surfaces of his characters, substituting traumatic concepts and plot devices for narrative logic and truly authentic, compelling emotion.