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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt confronts the relationship between Fonda and Voight with unusual frankness -- and with emotional tenderness and subtlety that is, if anything, even harder to portray.
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineWhat does work in Coming Home are the small, human, unguarded moments. The performances, undeniably appealing, were deservedly praised, Dern and Voight coming off best.
- 60Time OutTime OutCliché piles on cliché to the strains of a garbled '60s soundtrack, but the movie's ending goes some way to recognising its failure. Fonda is magnificent.
- 60NewsweekJack KrollNewsweekJack KrollAdmirable in many ways, Coming Home succumbs to the same American lust for romance and heroism for which it implicitly condemns its doomed Marine captain. [20 Feb 1978, p.87]
- 50Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrThe film has less to do with politics, women's or otherwise, than with a very conventional notion of the redemptive power of mother love. Which would be all right if director Hal Ashby had managed to mount it effectively—he hasn't though, and the results are dramatically incoherent.
- 50The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyStrong, stinging triangle of two Vietnam vets and one wife.
- 50Washington PostGary ArnoldWashington PostGary ArnoldSome of the intuitions and sentiments shared by Ashby and the cast result in affecting interludes, but on the whole the material is too diffuse and complacently wistful to accomplish its ultimate goal of getting you there, breaking your heart, scaling the summit of old Mt. Pathos.
- 50The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelHal Ashby directed this intuitive yet amorphous movie, which falls apart when he resorts to melodramatic crosscutting.