That's the lasting impression this movie left on me: there are good people in the world; ordinary good people, not superheroes.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 20, 2017

Home Again doesn't seem to be particularly concerned with story development - probably a fifth of the movie is made up of montages, all jaunty music and well-lit actors more fitting in a sunscreen commercial.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 20, 2017

It all amounts to precisely nothing. It's not us, rom-com: it's you.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 1, 2017

Both unapologetically contrived and rather satisfying, if unchallenging.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2017

Maybe pre-teen girls will go for these unnervingly sanitised shenanigans.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2017

Yes, Witherspoon is as loveable as ever, but she can do this kind of thing in her sleep. Indeed, she must have felt close to it at times during this forgettable sigh of a movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2017

It might not be quite as charming as 2015's The Intern, but this is a Meyers movie through and through: irresistibly charismatic.

| Sep 28, 2017

The apple didn't fall far from the tree - in fact, it appears to be firmly wedged between two upper boughs.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2017

This is a romantic comedy but one that would need only the very slightest tweaking to be transformed into a home invasion horror movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 27, 2017

It's very silly but very watchable; you'd have to be very puritan to take exception.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2017

Home Again is a tone-deaf, embarrassing film, memorable only for some hilariously misjudged lines and its all-round incompetence.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 27, 2017

Home Again is comedy in the comfort zone. Rather than cite all the things this movie doesn't have-I'd rather compliment Meyers-Shyer old-fashioned Hollywood movie that chooses to swim against the tide of the moment

| Sep 18, 2017

Witherspoon lacks the abandon the May-December love angle requires, and the movie is so tidily formulaic that it feels as if it's been airbrushed; the send-up of Hollywood falls flat too.

| Sep 14, 2017

It's like watching a pharmaceutical commercial showing you how wonderful things will be once you convince your doctor to write that cure-all prescription for you.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 14, 2017

It's a flighty screwball scenario told with thrift-shop economy. But Meyers-Shyer develops it with real consideration for the emotional complications Alice would face.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 10, 2017

It makes Mama Meyers' It's Complicated looks like Bergman's Scenes From a Marriage in comparison.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 8, 2017

But there's very little that belongs to the young in Home Again. The film instead seems like a sacrificial offering, dressed up in the old ways and carefully placed at the feet of an elder, in the hopes that it will please them. I sure hope it does.

| Sep 8, 2017

Reese Witherspoon brings her trademark cheeky charm to Home Again, but she can't redeem a film that can't quite figure out what it's trying to say about marriage, sex, or family.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 8, 2017

Witherspoon is a genuine fireball, and it takes a lot to muffle her high spirits in a blanket of bland. So congratulations, Home Again. Against all odds, you've done it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 8, 2017

As the credits roll, it can be said that Home Again is a tight, witty script from a first-time director with a long list of hits ahead of her - and, of course, the golden age of Hollywood dynasties lighting her way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2017