Coming Home Again

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Coming Home Again

2020

1h 26m

Drama

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In San Francisco, a Korean-American man takes care of his dying mother and reflects upon their life, while she teaches him her traditional recipes.

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Kevin Crust

Los Angeles Times

As is so often the case, cultural specificity begets a very recognizable universality in this depiction of parents and children, love, death and grief.

Oct 26, 2020

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Ryan Lattanzio

IndieWire

Chung's understated performance is a fitting center for a movie almost always operating at whisper-level.

Rated: B+

Oct 24, 2020

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Carlos Aguilar

RogerEbert.com

Coming Home Again doesn't sanctify the image of the mother, but instead aims to truly capture the full-bodied personhood of the woman Lee put on the page.

Rated: 3.5/4

Oct 23, 2020

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Carolyn Hinds

But Why Tho? A Geek Community

Throughout the film both Chung and Chon have been captivating as two people doing their best to put on a brave face to encourage each other.

Rated: 7.5/10

Jul 29, 2021

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Alex Heeney

Seventh Row

Wayne Wang's Coming Home Again is a heartfelt story of a first generation Korean-American grieving as he takes care of his mother as she dies of cancer.

Nov 21, 2020

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Neither self-aggrandizing or sugar coating in its presentation of overwhelming grief, Coming Home Again is a painstaking reminder of Wang's supreme talents.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 27, 2020

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Delicate and moving. Beautiful work by director Wayne Wang!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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brent m

I kept waiting for something to grab onto that would bring out the empathy in me in this tale of caregiving in the face of impending loss. Yet usually-reliable director Wayne Wang never really delivers on this point. Instead the filmmaker gives us a sincere but ultimately thin, rote premise whose narrative is stretched to the limit, padded with interminably pregnant pauses, artfully photographed sequences (mostly of cooking) shot in stark silence and ample inconsequential dialogue that could easily have been cut. While the performances are generally impressive, much of what the ensemble has been asked to do comes up lacking in terms of evoking viewer engagement and bringing meaning to what's going on in the hearts and minds of the characters. This offering feels like it could have given audiences so much more but, regrettably, fails to do so.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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In San Francisco, a Korean-American man takes care of his dying mother and reflects upon their life, while she teaches him her traditional recipes.

Director: Wayne Wang
Producer: Donald Young, Naja Pham Lockwood
Screenwriter: Wayne Wang, Lee Chang-rae
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Production Co: Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 23, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 24, 2021
Runtime: 1h 26m

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