Celebrates the family unit without ever getting sanctimonious about its merits.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2021

Single mom Holly Hunter is fired from her job at a Chicago museum on the very day she is due to fly back to Baltimore to cope with nutty parents, loony aunt, wacky gay brother and boring sister. That's it -- that's the plot. Read it and weep.

| Nov 27, 2017

The Larsons aren't [a] fake sort of sitcom-y zany ... They're the mix of pent-up emotions, unspoken admiration, lifelong grudges, and unconditional love that's reflected in the grand majority of real, American families.

| Oct 18, 2017

Home for the Holidays is a perfect representation of why they say you can't go home again.

| Sep 26, 2017

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

Funny, adult look at a dysfunctional holiday.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 18, 2010

Foster's second directorial effort is a vividly drawn if too episodic portrait of an eccentric family, well acted by the entire cast, especially Holly Hunter and Robery Downey Jr.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

Jodie Foster has directed a poisoned paean to the great American tradition of torturous family gatherings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2008

This has its fair share of laugh out loud moments and a good deal of heart.

| Feb 27, 2008

Has a spirit and an ostensible shapelessness that are pure Cassavetes, enveloping a script that only seems to reach for the precise calculations of 1930s screwball comedy.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 2, 2006

A wonderful, big-hearted, messy Thanksgiving story.

| May 26, 2006

A modest film (in every sense) which pushes the gags too hard.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2005

Equal parts weirdly off-putting and humorously endearing. (Strange, I know.)

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2005

Lame attempt at trying to make you feel good.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 13, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Nov 19, 2004

WASP dysfunction done up right

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 10, 2004

Jodie Foster follows up her directing debut with this underrated, intelligent comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2004

It doesn't all work, but it's entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2003

I found myself shaking my head in embarrassed, smiling recognition.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2003