...a decent-enough premise that’s employed to watchable yet pervasively forgettable effect...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 8, 2022

A film that's not romantic enough for you to care, and not funny enough to make you laugh, "Home Again" barely qualifies as a rom-com. This is a movie that, while inoffensive, isn't worth your time.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | May 19, 2022

It's the wistful Reese rom-com that you expect from it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2020

[It] may have its heart in the right place as a bit of light, escapist entertainment, but it stops just short of artificially pausing conversation to let canned laughter dictate the audience's reaction.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2020

If you're just hankering to see Witherspoon on the big screen again, you could do worse. But we know she's capable and worthy of so much more.

Full Review | May 13, 2020

The most I can say is that it made me want to take a vacation to Santa Barbara.

Full Review | May 13, 2020

I didn't really need to see this movie.

Full Review | May 13, 2020

It has a good cast trapped in a script that is not challenging enough.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2019

Is there anything less relatable than rich, successful white people whining about how hard they have it?

Full Review | Original Score: .5/5 | Mar 21, 2019

Unfortunately Home Again wasn't a romantic comedy... It was a sitcom about 3 guys trying to get a screenplay made in LA and an older woman helping them out.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Mar 7, 2019

What a pleasure to see a film that's lighthearted and free from the raunch that dominates most chick flicks nowadays.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 20, 2018

Usually considered somewhat of a spark plug in her plucky-type of roles , Witherspoon is curiously reduced to playing what amounts to a walking sleeping pill in Meyers-Shyer's mawkish, contrived comedy Home Again.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 19, 2018

Something's clearly missing, though it's never quite clear if the extra oomph Home Again needed was left on the cutting room floor or out of the script entirely.

Full Review | Dec 19, 2018

"Home Again" feels like comfort food, specifically low fat vanilla bean ice cream from Whole Foods. Yes, the film is that white, frothy and delightful.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 2, 2018

Are you sure this isn't a television pilot for CBS?

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2018

I can already tell that it's going to be one of those movies that I watch over and over again once it's available on TV.

Full Review | Aug 26, 2018

On the whole, though, Alice is such a wet character, and her plight so shallow and insignificant, it is a struggle to care. Stay, go, cry, laugh, wake me when it is over.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2018

I think it's an excellent debut effort... a film doesn't have to make a grand social/political statement or make you squeamish to be enjoyable. Go Reese! Go Candice! Go Hallie!

Full Review | Aug 21, 2018

Reese is always appealing, but this film is clueless, sexist and at mostly just down right offensive. Sorry Reese, nothing to like here.

Full Review | Jun 22, 2018

The film is cute and funny and light, with really nice messages about love and dreams and family, giving it a classic romantic comedy feel that is the definition of a comfort watch.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2018