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Return

Name: Return
Genre: Drama
Released: February 3, 2012
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 63

2012

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Focus World | Release Date: February 3, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: When Kelli returns home from war, she expected to slowly but surely settle back into her life with her husband and kids in the small town she grew up in. But she gradually realizes that the life she left behind is no longer there waiting for her. (Focus Features)

Director: Liza Johnson

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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Noel Murray

Feb 8, 2012

Return is unusually attuned to its protagonist's alienation, which is especially painful because its source isn't some horrendous event she witnessed, but the hundreds of annoying aspects of everyday life. Read full review

Joshua Rothkopf

Feb 7, 2012

Return is almost too underdramatized to seem like a piece of today's zoomy entertainment, but its anxieties-the bare cupboards, the vague sense of purposelessness-are at the heart of the American experience for many. It's what indie filmmaking ought to be. Read full review

Andy Klein

Feb 10, 2012

Shannon chalks up another line on his rapidly growing résumé of memorable performances. But it's mostly Cardellini's show – she's in every scene. Her portrayal may at first seem opaque, as though she isn't quite sure who Kelli is. But that is, of course, the point. Kelli isn't quite sure who Kelli is. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Feb 6, 2012

As director Liza Johnson understands, simply being over there changes someone, no matter if anything unusually traumatic happened to the person. Read full review

James Mottram

Mar 26, 2012

Reversing his "Take Shelter" role, Michael Shannon convinces as her grounded husband and "Mad Men's" John Slattery offers good support as a fellow vet. But this is Cardellini's film, and she dominates with a terrific, tough-minded turn. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Feb 9, 2012

Johnson's feel for the rhythms of reconnection are steady, and she and her fine actors make Return one of only a handful of films to honestly address what to many is heartbreaking reality. Read full review

Rex Reed

Feb 8, 2012

Ms. Cardellini plays it like a zombie, and she isn't helped by all the loitering camera angles and repetitive close-ups of her head framed against car windows. It's a worthy subject, ploddingly explored in a film that is too modest for its own good. Read full review

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