Home Again

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

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.

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

Both unapologetically contrived and rather satisfying, if unchallenging.

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

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.

...a decent-enough premise that’s employed to watchable yet pervasively forgettable effect...

A film that's not romantic enough for you to care, and not funny enough to make you laugh, "Home Again" barely qualifies as a rom-com. This is a movie that, while inoffensive, isn't worth your time.

It's the wistful Reese rom-com that you expect from it.

[It] may have its heart in the right place as a bit of light, escapist entertainment, but it stops just short of artificially pausing conversation to let canned laughter dictate the audience's reaction.