The Return

Name: The Return
Genre: History
Released: December 6, 2024
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 66

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Bleecker Street Media | Release Date: December 6, 2024 | R

Summary: After 20 years away, Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The King has returned from the Trojan War, but much has changed in his kingdom. His beloved wife Penelope (Juliette Binoche) is a prisoner in her own home, hounded by suitors vying to be king. Their son Telemachus faces death at theAfter 20 years away, Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The King has returned from the Trojan War, but much has changed in his kingdom. His beloved wife Penelope (Juliette Binoche) is a prisoner in her own home, hounded by suitors vying to be king. Their son Telemachus faces death at the hands of these suitors, who see him as merely an obstacle to their pursuit of the kingdom. Odysseus has also changed—scarred by his experience of the Trojan war, he is no longer the mighty warrior from years past— but he must rediscover his strength in order to win back all he has lost. … Expand

Genre(s): History

Rating: R

Runtime: 116 min

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The Playlist Ankit Jhunjhunwala

Sep 14, 2024

The Return is one of the few instances where we wish for more fiery blood and guts rather than less. Even so, this is a superior rendering of a well-worn tale Read full review

Steve Pond

Sep 14, 2024

The pacing is far from what you’d expect in a Hollywood movie with this much action, which can make the film feel longer than its 116 minutes. But that rich languor and love of words is earned, and do you really want to tell Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche to hurry up? No. You. Do. Not. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Apr 11, 2025

Interestingly, it has the crowd-pleasing energy of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator films. There is real sinew here. Read full review

Collider Jason Gorber

Sep 16, 2024

With bold performances, a strong vision for the source material, and a wise decision to focus on this under-represented portion of this narrative, The Return makes for an effective character piece that proves these stories are not only timeless, they’re as timely as ever. Read full review

David Jenkins

Apr 11, 2025

From its slow build-up comes a rousing finale, with Penelope setting an impossible feat of strength and agility as the benchmark for her new marriage material (as it should be!). Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Dec 6, 2024

The Return works neither as a CliffsNotes version of The Odyssey nor as its own stand-alone tale. But it does remind us that Ralph Fiennes is an immortal. Read full review

The Guardian Radheyan Simonpillai

Sep 14, 2024

Stripping the narrative of its gods and monsters, and almost two-thirds of the chapters, is great but the vacuum isn’t filled with much more than his two magnetic leads and consistently sumptuous cinematography. The Return is gorgeous to behold, but there just isn’t enough there. Read full review

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