Unfortunately the movie was stuffed to the gills with one hundred thousand percent douche-bag accept no substitutes and it became a test of will to not shut it off

| Jul 2, 2021

Glodell is a cinematic voice to be reckoned with.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

I have to come out and say that I really liked Bellflower, but I just need to see it again to fully grasp it. Maybe smarter or less exhausted viewers will comprehend it more on the first viewing.

| Apr 3, 2020

A striking debut.

| Dec 15, 2017

While it may win over folks with its woozy, dreamlike, visual look ... Bellflower may also disgust others with its nasty, nihilistic narrative.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 1, 2017

Mr. Glodell's sexist, one-dimensional depiction of women notwithstanding, he also seems to champion domestic abuse when justified by infidelity.

| Oct 7, 2015

Girls, be careful how you break up with a guy who owns his own flamethrower.

| May 12, 2015

Glodell's debut is undoubtedly an immature work but it's such a genuine and energetic achievement that the flaws ultimately don't matter. Bellflower is an amazing mess.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 25, 2013

Bellflower is an all around great movie that benefits from excellent filmmaking and gorgeous cinematography.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Nov 11, 2013

A turbo-charged indictment of male adolescent fantasy and a biting critique of misplaced machismo. A burnt-out, bloody, brave debut, Bellflower rides the fallout from a relationship to a stomach-churning conclusion...or does it?

| Original Score: A- | Mar 14, 2013

Bellflower is a visual spectacle of independent cinema.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 2, 2012

An artistic celebration of the extremes in life but, without anything in between, most everyone is reduced to an unrelatable outline.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 2, 2012

It is infuriating and exhilarating, wonderful and annoying, clich and revolutionary, and with more problems than I can easily count (or recount, for that matter) the simple truth of the matter is that I borderline loved it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2012

A "promising" debut rather than an "exciting" debut.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 7, 2012

A surprising film all around, not just because of its far-out plot twists and distinctive DIY look, but because it illuminates a highly-charged part of the modern male psyche and the restlessness of a very specific kind of young adult.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 28, 2011

The movie is about things that seem awesome in the abstract turning terrible up close, because life (and love, and violence) cannot always be awesome.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 25, 2011

reminds me of that infamous photo by Andres Serrano of a crucifix submerged in a golden, rosy liquid ...

| Original Score: 89/100 | Nov 25, 2011

Made for $17,000 and worth about seventeen cents. Mumblecore for the first half, incoherent violent imagery in the second half. Doesn't anybody making movies nowadays understand the need for compelling characters, a lesson lost on mumblecore makers.

| Nov 24, 2011

The beauty of this picture is that it's impossible to predict where it's going to lead from scene to scene.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 5, 2011

"Bellflower" is your typical boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-builds-flamethrower-equipped-car kind of story.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 4, 2011