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By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 16 Sep 2015

For all its big emotions, the low-key Coming Home is a less a melodrama than a mellow drama…

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By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 14 Sep 2015

Zhang Yimou has long been celebrated as one of China's greatest living filmmakers, and his craft is no less evident in Coming Home…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 14 Sep 2015

a simple and sad story of a family torn apart by Mao Zedong's Communist movement...The film's final image is a testament to marital love…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 10 Sep 2015

Coming Home works best on a more lived-in, emotional level…

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By John Esther (94) for UR Chicago Magazine (83) on 09 Sep 2015

This is politically-fueled melodrama of a higher order…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 08 Sep 2015

It’s a less pointed and implicitly feminist work than such classics as Raise The Red Lantern and The Story Of Qiu Ju —one could even call…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 08 Sep 2015

An impressive Chinese melodrama about love, reconciliation, and the multiple meanings of home…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 08 Sep 2015

This miniature of a family in crisis [...] is richly rewarding, even without fiery battles, lavish set-pieces or high drama…

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By Peter Sobczynski (1,159) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 08 Sep 2015

What this film may lack in terms of visual flamboyance, it more than makes up for in telling its simple and direct story with a raw, emotional…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 07 Sep 2015

It's a little disappointing that Zhang Yimou has chosen a dramatically tepid melodrama as his vehicle for examining such a destructive political…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 07 Sep 2015

There is terrible pain here, and the main interest of the film is in how the characters respond to it and what their response says about China’s…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Sep 2015

Coming Home obviously has historical and political significance for Chinese who lived through the Cultural Revolution, and for families that…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 05 Sep 2015

A melodrama, but it's an accomplished one, reflecting a time and place with minimal moves, yet sustaining a feel of heartache that's engaging,…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 01 Sep 2015

Yimou’s lovely import is the kind of lump-in-your-throat drama they don’t make much anymore, at least in Hollywood…

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By Michael L (2,383) on 05 Aug 2015

Belíssimo filme asiático…

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By Jennie Kermode (588) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 23 Feb 2015

As beautifully shot as all the director's work, the film has a hypnotic quality complemented by simple yet powerful music…

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By Sam Woolf (118) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 03 Sep 2014

Coming Home is an affecting pocket magnum of a melodrama: it looks small and hits big…

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By Kean C K (128) on 23 May 2014

Coming Home, or Gui Lai, is more than just a man's struggle to come home, it also marks director Zhang Yimou's return to his creative sweet…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2014

While tears will be jerked, heartstrings plucked and throats enlumpened, it has to go down as a disappointment in the director’s catalogue…

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By Camille L (1,034) on 21 May 2014

Gui Lai est un film particulièrement fort émotionnellement dans la mesure où il traite de la Révolution Culturelle Chinoise par un angle…

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