Terrific performances and mature, sensitive storytelling keep this emotionally charged throughout.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 8, 2024

What the film shows us goes against the grain of what it asks us to accept.

| Sep 18, 2023

With Hal Ashby at the helm, the film also explores very human relationships; these are complicated, believable people, undergoing realistic stresses in realistic environs.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 22, 2022

A beautifully acted love-story -- Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern are memorable and then some, but the politics that supposedly gave the film prestige hardly remain in its after-image.

| Nov 5, 2021

I found the film's portrayal of machismo in crisis pretty convincing. Fonda acts Sally Bender's stumblings from conformity to politicisation with tenderness and precision, and Dern is moving as the all-American hero going into self-destruct.

| Sep 22, 2021

A strong, gutsy film boasting characters so real you cry and laugh and feel with them during the little more than two hours that you know them.

| Aug 5, 2021

The film's power grows stronger when Ashby draws up an anti-war allegation about wartime dehumanization inferences. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 24, 2020

Hal Ashby's Coming Home, the latest of the Vietnam war-oriented movies, is a sensitive, beautiful, and in the end disturbing account of the personal trauma of war and its far-reaching effects on all involved.

| May 27, 2020

Miss Fonda continues her gallery of sensitive portrayals, Dern is absolutely chilling when he confronts the lovers, Voigt is superb. Despite their efforts and the knowing direction of Hal Ashby, the overall effect is as depressing as the war itself.

| Mar 29, 2019

This movie is a big deal.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 17, 2008

Though well acted by Jon Voight and Jane Fonda (who won Oscars), Coming Home is one of Hal Ashby's weakest films, a middlebrow melodrama that wears its political message on its sleeves.

| Original Score: B | Feb 8, 2008

The film has less to do with politics, women's or otherwise, than with a very conventional notion of the redemptive power of mother love. Which would be all right if director Hal Ashby had managed to mount it effectively.

| Oct 31, 2007

The performances, undeniably appealing, were deservedly praised, Dern and Voight coming off best.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 31, 2007

Coming Home is in general an excellent Hal Ashby film which illuminates the conflicting attitudes on the Vietnam debacle from the standpoint of three participants.

| Oct 31, 2007

A wonderful movie with stellar performances; though Dern is a bit of a caricature.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2007

Clich piles on clich to the strains of a garbled '60s soundtrack, but the movie's ending goes some way to recognising its failure. Fonda is magnificent.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 18, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 27, 2005

A powerful film about love and war. Oscars for the leads and Bruce Dern deservedly nominated.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 18, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2004