Home Again
Open Road Films (II) | Release Date: September 8, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Julia CooperSep 7, 2017
Home Again is a tight, witty script from a first-time director with a long list of hits ahead of her – and, of course, the golden age of Hollywood dynasties lighting her way. Read full review
75
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiSep 7, 2017
What puts the bonkers premise of Home Again inside the realm of possibility is the brilliant casting of Candice Bergen as Witherspoon’s mom, a former cinema siren. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshSep 7, 2017
Home Again" is pure fantasy, all softly-lit, perfectly styled, looking like the cover of Sunset magazine. A world where a 40-year-old single mom is pursued by no fewer than four handsome men. But within that fantasy is also a wonderfully deft demonstration of feminine autonomy in matters of sex, love and marriage. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattSep 7, 2017
Witherspoon can easily carry an entire movie in her dimples, but it’s hard not to measure Alice against a role as richly written as her recent turn on "Big Little Lies." Here, she’s mostly just a winsome proxy for midlife wish fulfillment — a bubbly brunch mimosa you drink up before the fizz is gone. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlSep 5, 2017
Hallie Meyers-Shyer’s cheeringly low-key debut, Home Again, offers proof that someone making movies understands what Hollywood has in Reese Witherspoon. I hope this star and this new writer-director make a habit of pairing up. Read full review
63
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonSep 6, 2017
Meyers-Shyer loves movies as much as the young men in Home Again and the best scenes reflect that. Read full review
60
VoxAlissa WilkinsonSep 7, 2017
It does just what it sets out to do: Give us a bit of fantasy, and then let us remember the joy of reality. Read full review
58
The Film StageDan MeccaSep 6, 2017
This is Meyers-Shyer’s directorial debut and it shows in spots. The pacing ebbs and flows a bit unevenly and plenty of jokes don’t hit as much as the filmmaking would suggest they do. That said, the casting goes a long way, as does the aforementioned production design. Read full review
58
IndieWireKate ErblandSep 5, 2017
It’s an amenable enough ramble of a romantic comedy, and Witherspoon is as charming as ever in the genre in which she excels. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperSep 7, 2017
Home Again has a certain charm and polish. It’s hard not to like people who are so … likable. But it’s also hard not to feel a constant sense of disconnect from these characters and their so-called “crises.” Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldSep 7, 2017
Nobody’s behavior here resembles that of an actual person, and the directing is often awkward. Read full review
50
Washington PostMark JenkinsSep 7, 2017
If her career as director somehow doesn’t pan out, Meyers-Shyer would make an excellent fairy godmother. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeSep 7, 2017
The younger Meyers has a lot to learn about creating believable character motivations and relationships to anchor the aspirational fantasy. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzSep 7, 2017
Home Again is a romantic comedy with its heart in the right place. And that’s just about the only thing it has going for it. It’s facile, disingenuous, artificial in nearly every way. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottSep 7, 2017
Still, while it wouldn't be correct to characterize Home Again as a formula film, it's generic enough that it somehow feels formulaic. Consequently, "Home Again" never distinguishes itself as anything but a predictable and thoroughly ordinary film, just with lots of fancy window dressing. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe DziemianowiczSep 6, 2017
Reese Witherspoon’s oversized appeal and radiance is no match for Home Again, a ramshackle romcom short on both romance and laughs. Read full review
40
Time OutAnna SmithSep 5, 2017
Home Again is too superficial to maintain tension as a character-driven drama, and not funny enough to overcome an aimless plot and confused tone. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSep 11, 2017
I’m not predisposed to like movies focused on hollow characters floating in their own bubble of self-absorption, whether they’re men (Entourage) or women (Sex and the City), and as soon as I realized that’s what Home Again was offering, I knew I was in for a long 97 minutes. Unfortunately, I was right. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaSep 7, 2017
Yes, the casual-chic interior designs shine as much as her mom’s ever did. But I never really felt at home with Home Again. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 7, 2017
It’s the dullest movie about Tinseltown in decades, an irritating film full of irritating turns. Read full review
38
Rolling StonePeter TraversSep 6, 2017
A patently bogus romcom in which every note rings false. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTom RussoSep 6, 2017
Home “again”? It seems that first-timer Meyers-Shyer isn’t setting so much as a piggy toe beyond familiar territory, and this listless rom-com shows it. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisSep 13, 2017
To be fair, not even Meg Ryan’s nose-scrunch, Kate Hudson’s sass, or Julia Roberts’ million-dollar smile could jolt this muddled rom-com to life. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla DargisSep 6, 2017
For her directorial debut, Home Again, Hallie Meyers-Shyer, Nancy Meyers’s daughter, has made a shabby copy of a Nancy Meyers romantic comedy. Read full review
30
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeSep 5, 2017
Despite the powerhouse presence of Reese Witherspoon, this limp little midlife crisis comedy leaves out the comedy and the crisis, and it certainly never comes to life. Read full review
30
VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 5, 2017
Once Nancy Meyers went out on her own, she became a wittier and more nimble filmmaker. So maybe Hallie Meyers-Shyer will follow in her footsteps and improve. Right now, she’s got nowhere to go but up. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschSep 5, 2017
Flatly staged, patchily acted and hobbled by a script (by Meyers-Shyer) that substitutes strained cuteness for wit and texture, Home Again is like a feature-length sitcom sans laughs. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoSep 7, 2017
Home Again is plain vanilla, from start to finish. Read full review
20
Paste MagazineOktay Ege Kozak Sep 15, 2017
The problem with director and writer Hallie Myers-Sheyer’s film is that it just blandly presents all of the expected cliches of the genre without anything really new or unique to say. Read full review
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