Whilst admittedly showcasing a powerhouse performance by Cardellini, Return sadly fails to convey its heart-rending story

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2019

As a first feature, this is a great start.

| Sep 18, 2017

Return is a commendable, genuine, and simple drama that effectively highlights the intrinsic trauma soldiers face when trying to come to terms with the reality of life back home.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 25, 2013

The writer-director is Liza Johnson, an artist, making her first picture and doing it with considerable grace.

| Jun 19, 2013

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 3, 2012

Skipping the usual flashbacks-and-cold-sweats cliches, Return has an understated power, even if the story traverses pretty well-trodden ground.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2012

This is a quiet, honourable, carefully paced little independent movie, like a Sundance Institute coda to The Deer Hunter.

| Apr 7, 2012

Cardellini holds the restless centre of Liza Johnson's patient, precise drama, which brims with quiet disaffection.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 5, 2012

A debut of sober distinction, carried by the seriously good Linda Cardellini as a US Army supply worker whose readjustment to Rust Belt domesticity is touch and go.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2012

As hounourable as its intentions are, the feeling of been there, done that pervades.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 5, 2012

Johnson's narrative control is as assured as her visual sense. She skilfully captures the dead-end decency that compounds the servicewoman's mix of trauma and frustration.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 5, 2012

Michael Shannon steals the film - when does he not? - as the loving, frustrated husband whose fuse is burning short.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2012

There's no glib emotional grandstanding with the cast - particularly the excellent Cardellini - unshowily inhabiting their roles and underlining the assertion that it really could happen to anybody.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2012

Impressively directed, sharply observed and emotionally engaging drama with a terrific central performance from Linda Cardellini.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2012

It's a focused, unshowy character study, light on fireworks but full of authentic drama and featuring an impressive lead performance from former ER actress Linda Cardellini.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2012

This is Cardellini's film, and she dominates with a terrific, tough-minded turn.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 26, 2012

A striking, humane, low-fi coming-home drama whose very title has a relaxed connotation that the movie robustly embodies.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 23, 2012

It's a well-made but grim psychological melodrama.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 16, 2012

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 3, 2012

Unique for how normal it is, and laudable for its humbleness.

| Feb 29, 2012