David Walsh World Socialist Web Site Feb 15, 2021

The film is slight, not especially malicious. Murray is entertaining to watch, even when, or perhaps especially when, he does not have a great deal to do.

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 4, 2020 3.5/4.0

One of Jim Jarmusch's finer films.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy May 24, 2019 3.5/4

A movie of wry humor and wry observations.

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PJ Nabarro Patrick Nabarro Nov 3, 2018 4/5

The film, and its very oxymoronic title, "Broken Flowers", acts as a metaphor for the anti-epiphanies that exploring your past can present.

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David Ansen Newsweek Mar 14, 2018

Funny, bittersweet, its understatement yielding surprising depth charges, Broken Flowers is a triumph of close observation and telling details.

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Victoria Segal New Statesman Sep 26, 2017

... Broken Flowers, coming from a postcode of its own, doesn't quite deliver.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Dec 29, 2015 A

Murray shows us that what was behind his early-period jaded-hipster shtick was a melancholy and fearful man.

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Gabe Leibowitz Film and Felt Sep 26, 2009 62/100

Insightful, entertaining, and a worthy addition to the filmography of one of America's more interesting modern directors.

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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Sep 5, 2009

Throbs with compressed emotion

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Apr 29, 2009

Murray's performance is a highlight in a very entertaining dramedy.

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Matthew De Abaitua Film4 Oct 5, 2008

Funny, disciplined, and acted with great skill and warmth.

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Geoff Andrew Time Out Aug 16, 2007

The ending is sublime, a set piece that almost makes up for the overwhelming slightness of it all.

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Prairie Miller Long Island Press May 25, 2007

Womanizer cads may be front and center in movies. But surprisingly sometimes, so are the impressive accompanying ensemble righteous females who cut them nicely down to size, and the quirky and twisted Broken Flowers is no exception.

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Erica Abeel Film Journal International Mar 1, 2007

The auteur's unbeatable weirdness here mutates into preciosity.

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Liese Spencer Sight & Sound Sep 28, 2006

After a career of deadpanning, Murray's impassive performance is still fresh, funny, sympathetic and restrained.

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Leo Goldsmith Not Coming to a Theater Near You Aug 7, 2006

This is a film about insufficiency on so many levels, a film not of hipster indifference, but of a certain effete inability to react.

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Jo Berry Empire Magazine Apr 1, 2006 4/5

Subtle, warm direction from Jim Jarmusch and another Oscar-worthy performance from Bill Murray -- will the Academy just give him a statue, already?

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Michael W. Phillips, Jr. Goatdog's Movies Feb 4, 2006 3/5

It's about questions, not easy answers, and its refusal to provide them might frustrate some viewers unaccustomed to Jarmusch's elliptical style.

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Andrea Chase Killer Movie Reviews Feb 4, 2006 5/5

In Murray [Jarmusch] has found his quintessential actor.

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Christopher Smith Bangor Daily News (Maine) Feb 3, 2006 A-

A marvelous movie, with Bill Murray scoring again in the realm of drama.

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