Working with all-star DP Agnès Godard, Meier effectively communicates the sense of upended privacy.

| Mar 29, 2024

Director Ursula Meier generally distinguishes her feature debut by not pushing elements to melodramatic or farcical extremes.

| Mar 29, 2024

Meier handles the tone-shifts with admirable assurance in this sweepingly shot fable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2024

It would have been more effective if Meier had exercised less restraint and allowed her characters to spin out of control.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2024

A first film of laudable ambition and Meier's directorial confidence suggests promise for the future.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2024

A very clever and creative film that probes on family solidarity, change, the toxic residues of a car culture, and the physical, psychological and spiritual effects of noise pollution.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2024

Home is finally hopeful in its view of familial bonds holding together as the characters are forced to face the far from idealized world they are inescapably a part of.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2024

Ursula Meier's Home is one of the strangest horror films of recent years, a real get under the skin movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2024

Filmmaker Meier takes a clever look at family life by placing the characters in a surreal location and then twisting things outrageously.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 29, 2024

Gradually the movie turns into an ironic assault on the inconvenient nature of civilization's conveniences.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2024

Moving from the richly filled, quiet life of Marthe and her clan to the hell that the road brings, the story... has a unique arc and is a true family tragedy.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 29, 2024

This suburban horror tale of a family's disintegration once modern life begins encroaching is reminiscent of such films as "The Cement Garden"...

| Original Score: B | Mar 29, 2024

It's a nightmare metaphor for the horrors of the modern world, but will seem like everyday reality to anyone living around Heathrow or any motorway.

| Mar 29, 2024

A surrealistic look at a family thrown onto the chopping block of modern technology.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 29, 2024

Though the cautionary symbolism is clear here, the committee-written film (there were five scribes including Meier), smartly keeps its message quotient in check.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 29, 2024

Prepare for this one to be rattling around the grey matter long after leaving the cinema. An auteur is born.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2024

Home is actually less a road movie than the domestic-invasion movie taken to its sick conclusion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2024

The acting's superb, the premise intriguing, but it's hard to have sympathy for the heroine's stubbornness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2024

Darkly funny, haunting, and perhaps hopeful...there's a keen sense of absurdism (and in Agns Godard's brilliant photography a sort of surrealist realism, if there is such a thing) in the circumstances. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 29, 2024

A moving affair, presenting a family unit in all its messy, loving wonder, and the surreality of the situation escalates inexorably into something quietly horrifying. Beautifully shot and played, Home is something of a gem.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2024