Broken Flowers Reviews

Movie Reviews

• wonderfully tender film

  by Glenn Whipp [L.A. Daily News ]

• What's missing from Broken Flowers, though, is sensitivity

  by Jeremiah Kipp [Slant Magazine ]

• This endearing comedy would have gained so much more had the perfume of its broken flowers been more poisonous

  by Sandrine Marques [Plume Noire ]

• the year's best film thus far

  by Daniel Fienberg [Zap2it ]

• one of the most imaginative and exhilarating films of the year

  by Calvin Wilson [St. Louis Post-Dispatch ]

• okay, but should have been much better

  by Jean Lowerison [San Diego Metropolitan ]

• no big payoff, no true epiphany

  by Kim Morgan [Reel ]

• more than well-worth seeing

  by James Verniere [Boston Herald ]

• minimal dialogue

  by Edward Douglas [Comingsoon ]

• it?s maliciously observed, and it has a neat formal style

  by David Denby [The New Yorker ]

• it's one of the best films of the year

  by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]

• isn't perfect

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• is still a Jim Jarmusch movie - reserved, low-key, wryly comic

  by Matt McKillop [Filmcritic ]

• is both a road movie and a chronicle of shifting realities

  by Robert Denerstein [Denver Rocky Mountain News ]

• intelligent comedy that comes along seldomly

  by [The Filmiliar Cineaste ]

• ends on a pleasingly poignant note without relinquishing its gentle absurdity

  by Sheri Linden [Boxoffice Magazine ]

• an imperfect

  by Chris Barsanti [Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice ]

• an elegant, evocative film

  by Bill Muller [The Arizona Republic ]

• aftermath of happiness

  by Michael Wilmington [Chicago Tribune ]

• a very good film

  by Le Apprenti [Movie-Vault ]

• a tale of hilarity and drama

  by Brian Orndorf [EFilmCritic ]

• a rare film that richly rewards the attention it demands.

  by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• a movie of uncommon sweetness and delight

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]

• a broken-down-guy-finally-opens-his-eyes-and-rethinks- being-a-hermit movie

  by Chris Hewitt [Houston Chronicle ]
• Reviewed by Andrea Chase [Killer Movie Reviews ]
• Reviewed by Paul Maniaci [The Cinema Source ]
• Reviewed by [E! Online ]
• Reviewed by Brian Marder [Hollywood ]
• Reviewed by Gene Seymour [Newsday ]
• Reviewed by Gene Seymour [Newsday ]
• Reviewed by Jack Mathews [New York Daily News ]
• Reviewed by Tony Medley [Tony Medley ]
• Reviewed by Scott Foundas [L.A. Weekly ]

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