Broken Flowers (2005)
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Reviews Counted:181
Fresh:157
Rotten:24
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: Bill Murray's subtle and understated style complements director Jim Jarmusch's minimalist storytelling in this quirky, but deadpan comedy.
Theatrical Release:21-10-2005
Synopsis: With BROKEN FLOWERS, staunchly independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch delivers one of his most pleasing, accessible pictures. Winner of the 2005 Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, the film tells... [More]
Starring: Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Tilda Swinton
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Reviews for Broken Flowers
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Funny, disciplined, and acted with great skill and warmth. Full Review |
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After a career of deadpanning, Murray's impassive performance is still fresh, funny, sympathetic and restrained. Full Review |
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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? Full Review |
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4/5 |
Murray is terrific as Don %u2013 there's a genuine sadness to his character and he makes you feel the pain of the emptiness he doesn't know how to express. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Moving, mirthful and minimalist, Broken Flowers is a bittersweet treat from indie great Jim Jarmusch. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
Jarmusch catches life with nuance and charm ... it's like a delicate variation on About Schmidt. Full Review |
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62/100 |
Insightful, entertaining, and a worthy addition to the filmography of one of America's more interesting modern directors. Full Review |
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Throbs with compressed emotion Full Review |
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The ending is sublime, a set piece that almost makes up for the overwhelming slightness of it all. Full Review |
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Each encounter is a finely observed and beautifully performed vignette in its own right, but together they sketch out a past from which our grey Lothario has been irrevocably set adrift. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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The auteur's unbeatable weirdness here mutates into preciosity. Full Review |
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This is a film about insufficiency on so many levels, a film not of hipster indifference, but of a certain effete inability to react. Full Review |
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5/5 |
In Murray [Jarmusch] has found his quintessential actor. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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A marvelous movie, with Bill Murray scoring again in the realm of drama. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Jim Jarmusch vuelve a sorprender con una película minimalista donde los pequeños detalles, varios personajes episódicos, y un casi imperturbable Bill Murray, nos conducen hacia una travesía extraña y sugestiva. Full Review |
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