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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayWhile Winged Migration asks the audience to empathize with birds, Fly Away Home asks us to take a closer look at the people who love them, and to understand what gives their lives meaning.
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWhat I will remember is the photography, and the bliss (just this side of madness) with which the Jeff Daniels character invents his foolhardy schemes.
- 88San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserSan Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserFly Away Home" is directed by Carroll Ballard, who made "The Black Stallion" and "Never Cry Wolf." In other words, it was directed by a filmmaker with talent, taste and subtlety, working from an understated script by Robert Rodat and Vince McKewin.
- 80The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinRekindling the delicacy and invigorating naturalness he brought to "The Black Stallion," and again helped immensely by the radiant cinematography of Caleb Deschanel, Ballard turns a potentially treacly children's film into an exhilarating '90s fable.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliAs a family film, Fly Away Home has something for members of every temperament and age group: adventure, pathos, technical detail about the design of the aircraft, cute animals, and human drama.
- 75San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackSan Francisco ChroniclePeter StackA solid family movie, "Fly Away Home" is a constant feast for the eyes, with rich photography by Caleb Deschanel.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumBallard, working from a screenplay by Robert Rodat and Vince McKewin, lets the melancholy hang in the air with a few too many poetic shots of the lonely girl. But as Thomas teaches Amy how to spread her wings, any lacy sentimentality (as well as the jarring tree-hugger subplot about meanie land developers) falls away, revealing the soaring beauty of the flying sequences.
- 70NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenNo better children's film has appeared all year, but my bet is it'll be the grown-ups, not the kids, who come away with a lump in the throat.
- 67Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleFrom gawky, gladdening parades across the grasslands to breathtaking aerial acrobatics, Fly Away Home is a feast for the soul and for the eye.