Goodbye June
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): December 12, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
15
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The TimesTom ShoneDec 15, 2025
It’s a wonderfully raw, moving and funny film about sibling niggles and family heartbreak, filled with biting humour, button-sized observation, noisy kids, frayed tempers and armpit farts. In short, a perfect movie to watch with your family as you contemplate the looming festivities. Read full review
80
EmpireHelen O'HaraDec 15, 2025
A strong directorial debut from Winslet with — as you’d expect — stellar performances from her cast. It might be the perfect antidote to other, overly saccharine Christmas films. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinDec 12, 2025
Goodbye June is a keenly observed, nicely played drama about a family whose members are still working out how to muddle along with one another, despite three of its four adult siblings having long flown the coop. Read full review
80
ColliderIsabella SoaresDec 11, 2025
Overall, Goodbye June proves Winslet is just as talented onscreen as she is calling the shots, bringing a raw approach to this already emotionally-driven story. Through her thoughtful direction, the ensemble is able to deliver a convincing portrayal of a dysfunctional yet loving family dealing with potential loss and precocious grief. Read full review
75
The Daily BeastNick SchagerDec 23, 2025
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. Read full review
70
Screen DailyNikki BaughanDec 15, 2025
Underneath it all, superb performances from a stellar, experienced cast – confidently shepherded by debut director/star Kate Winslet – hit authentic, relatable notes, and save the film from sinking entirely into melodrama Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesDec 11, 2025
The film is lovely in the graceful way it executes its unsurprising content, and the actors make it soar even at its most predictable. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 4, 2026
Winslet, as actress and director, gets us to the emotional core of the story with skill and compassion even as her movie introduces its emotional buttons, one by one, before punching each in turn with a care and sensitivity that make this “Goodbye” therapeutic as well as over-familiar. Read full review
63
Washington PostSonia RaoDec 11, 2025
Goodbye June is a sweet but bland Christmas film that relies too heavily on its talented cast to make up for its narrative shortcomings — a surprising choice for actress Kate Winslet’s directorial debut, until you take note of who wrote the screenplay. Read full review
63
The Associated PressLindsey BahrDec 11, 2025
This is a piece about characters and Winslet gives her actors space to build people that by and large feel pretty real — the standouts are really Flynn, as the sensitive son still living at home and closest to his parents, and Spall, believably oblivious in that charmingly British way. Read full review
60
iFrancesca SteeleDec 15, 2025
Goodbye June is preoccupied with sentiment in a way that might feel great for a two-minute Christmas ad, but just doesn’t work for an entire film. Still, Winslet is a confident director and Anders has an eye for relationships. Read full review
60
Radio TimesPatrick CremonaDec 11, 2025
While perhaps this doesn't quite announce Winslet as a major new directorial voice – her approach is more functional than eye-catching – Goodbye June is still a worthwhile film with some impressive moments, and seems likely to leave many a viewer with a tear in their eye. Read full review
60
Next Best PictureEma SasicDec 11, 2025
You’ll know where Goodbye June is headed very early on, but that doesn’t mean there’s not enough here to enjoy along the way. Read full review
58
IndieWireDavid EhrlichDec 28, 2025
If the emotions in Goodbye June are as transparently manufactured as the fake snow that falls outside of the hospital windows, they’re all bundled up in a warm blanket of truth — the truth of how loss has a gravity that can bring a family closer together if they let it. Read full review
50
The PlaylistWarren CantrellJan 1, 2026
Mirren is magnificent as the fading mother losing her fight against the inevitable, and Winslet wisely leans on this, as well as the other reliable performances from her overqualified cast. Read full review
50
The Travers TakePeter TraversDec 26, 2025
Kate Winslet makes her directing debut with a script written by her 22-year-old son and acted by A-listers who, try as they might, can’t save it from dying-at-Christmas clichés. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanDec 26, 2025
The story, about a dying matriarch and her stricken adult children, paints by numbers with stock characters and cloying scenarios. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonDec 12, 2025
The whole film feels like a production of calling in favors, as the relatively hotshot cast it drew seems incongruent with its content: a clichéd story of a disordered family over the holidays. Read full review
50
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeDec 11, 2025
Goodbye June is messy, humanistic and shamelessly sentimental. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesDec 11, 2025
A cast this good would have a hard time delivering something less than watchable, and Goodbye June is watchable, even if little of it works. Read full review
50
VarietyGuy LodgeDec 11, 2025
There’s a lot of acting here, little of it peak-form for the talent involved, though the ensemble lifts and colors Anders’ sometimes heavy-handed dialogue. Read full review
50
The Film StageMitchell BeaupreDec 11, 2025
There’s a bitter honesty to that which we aren’t often confronted with in a world where stories try to give us some way out, some bit of hope. But Goodbye June can’t tackle this material with the same kind of dimensionality present in, say, Tamara Jenkins’ superb The Savages. Read full review
50
Screen RantAlex HarrisonDec 11, 2025
It would be unfair to assign blame to any one performance, or even to Winslet's direction, when the script is the obvious culprit. Story or character hurdles are thrown up and surmounted with the same neatness, sapping them of their impact. The movie becomes so certain of its footing that the two-hour runtime starts to feel like a chore. Read full review
40
The TimesKevin MaherDec 12, 2025
The narrative arrives in clumsy self-contained chunks that don’t always gel. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawDec 11, 2025
There’s nothing wrong with a weepie or big emotional moments, but for me Goodbye June is too unreal, too contrived in its sugary farewell. Read full review
39
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiDec 11, 2025
Goodbye June is just hyperemotional tourism. We’re lookie-loos popping our heads in for the saddest moment in this family’s lives. We don’t even get to know them very well. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleDec 11, 2025
Needless to say, the actors are better than the material. Read full review
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