Netflix's 'Goodbye June': What People Are Saying About Kate Winslet's Directorial Debut, Written By Her Son Joe Anders!

Goodbye June is out now on Netflix!

The movie, which is Kate Winslet‘s directorial debut with a script written by her 22-year-old son Joe Anders, just hit the streamer on Christmas Eve (December 24).

The film takes place just before Christmas, when an unexpected turn in their mother’s health thrusts four adult siblings and their exasperating father into chaos as they navigate messy family dynamics in the face of potential loss. But their quick-witted mother, June, orchestrates her decline on her own terms — with biting humour, blunt honesty, and a lot of love.

Helen Mirren, Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn and Andrea Riseborough all star alongside Kate.

But what are critics saying so far?

Keep reading to find out more…

Goodbye June has a 66% Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Barbra Streisand says: “We just saw Kate Winslet‘s movie that she directed called Goodbye June. We were very moved by it. The reality of the actor’s performances was amazing. Kate herself, who is a wonderful actress knows how to get performances out of her actors! Of course Helen Mirren made me cry, but now there is Kate the Director… and a fine one indeed!”

The New York Times says: “Brimming with good nature, even in its more flat-footed sequences, Goodbye June wants us to know that none of these traits or familial currents are immutable — especially not in the face of a dying parent with a sharp tongue.”

Variety says: “The film never quite locates the heart, in large part because it never cracks its collective of variously dissatisfied characters — all of whom want for interior life and detail beyond their present unhappy circumstances.”

The Guardian writes: “There are one or two nice lines and sharp moments but they are submerged in a treacly soup of sentimentality; in the end, I couldn’t get past the cartoony quasi-Richard Curtis characterisation and the weird not-quite-earthlingness of the people.”

IndieWire gives it a C+, writing: “Winslet’s directorial debut may grovel for your sympathies, but at least it knows that bitterness, loss, and regret are what really makes the Christmas season so magical.”

The Daily Beast says: “A movie manufactured to tug at the heartstrings. That it does so this gracefully and movingly is a testament to Winslet’s understated stewardship and a script by her son, Joe Anders, whose manipulations are as gentle as they are affecting.”

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