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Coming Home Reviews
Intriguingly, the director has successfully woven a Kafkaesque metaphor into a classically Chinese melodrama.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 2, 2015
A modern yet timeless tragedy that's desperate, sad and rich with devotion.
| Original Score: B+ | Oct 2, 2015
Chen and Gong, two of China's most respected actors, offer two great performances in a film about love, loss and perseverance that will nearly break your heart.
| Oct 1, 2015
Daoming just manages to keep the material from turning into a sentimental variation on "Waiting for Godot."
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 1, 2015
Zhang Yimou is now 64 years old, and the personal pain that permeated his last film to deal directly with the Cultural Revolution, To Live, has faded to a sad resignation and a mood of tender forgiveness in the emotional Coming Home.
Full Review | Oct 1, 2015
Heartbreaking in its depiction of ordinary lives affected by political upheaval, this ode to the fundamental values that survive even under such dire circumstances has an epic gravity that recalls another great historical romance, Doctor Zhivago.
| Oct 1, 2015
Coming Home sinks into a conventional tragic romance rut that not even engaging performances by Gong and Chen can save.
| Oct 1, 2015
Less shocking than [director Yimou Zhang's] previous effort, but no less heartbreaking.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2015
Amnesia is one of the more hackneyed of plot devices, but it still resounds because memory signifies so much - history, identity, and what remains when time takes everything away.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 1, 2015
For a film with only three main players, Coming Home feels gargantuan in its emotional toll on the characters and audience alike.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 1, 2015
Bangs on those piano chords too hard, as if trying to drown out Gong and Chen's quietly wrenching performances.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2015
The beautifully composed shots are studies in shadow and sunlight, drizzle and grime.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 24, 2015
The idea of a loved one being erased from memory provides an obvious but still potent metaphor for the social engineering of the revolution, and Zhang heightens its poignance by underplaying its political significance.
| Sep 17, 2015
I'm not sure if there's room in the new Chinese film world, which like American cinemas is now dominated by big-budget special effects films, for another series of Gong-Zhang films. But they should forge ahead. They've recaptured the magic.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 17, 2015
As Lu and Feng struggle to reconnect, and find themselves settling for the oddest of dependencies, it's hard to be unmoved.
| Sep 11, 2015
Zhang steers "Coming Home" toward a poignant study of immense distance in small spaces.
| Sep 10, 2015
Elegantly touching ...
| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 10, 2015
Coming Home can be understood as both a Nicholas Sparks-style weepie, and a social commentary about the Cultural Revolution.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 10, 2015
One could even call it a shameless weepie. Still, it's a welcome throwback to one of the most emotionally wrenching actor-director partnerships in film history.
| Original Score: B | Sep 9, 2015