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

| Mar 14, 2018

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

| Sep 26, 2017

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

| Aug 16, 2007

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

| Sep 28, 2006

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Murray manages, almost impossibly, to come up with still another rich variation on his Depleted Man persona, and his performance is at once enormously generous and fiercely, concisely witty.

Full Review | Dec 9, 2005

Moving, mirthful and minimalist, Broken Flowers is a bittersweet treat from indie great Jim Jarmusch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 15, 2005

There's a real poignancy in watching Murray's emotional chill thaw from the heat generated by even the idea of romance, or at least its more libidinous evil twin, lust.

| Sep 26, 2005

Brilliantly complex and vivid performances make this film a moving exploration of all we do to find meaning in our lives.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 21, 2005

Exhibits a confident delicacy and palpable, mature sadness.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 18, 2005

Broken Flowers manages to charm us with its encompassing fragrance, the pungency of life forces emerging from the muck.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2005

Jarmusch's touch is magical; the movie a sublime meditation that left me wanting more which, in this case, is actually a very good thing.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 13, 2005

Completely charming, but ultimately slight.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 12, 2005

You can't take your eyes off [Murray], and you leave Broken Flowers hoping he's feeling better -- about life, love, everything.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2005

It kept me absorbed all the way through, especially the collaboration between acting auteur Bill Murray and Mr. Jarmusch in virtually every frame of the film.

| Aug 11, 2005

"A simple and blissful melding of sensibilities which may be the year's best film thus far."

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 7, 2005

[A] well-meaning but remote picture.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2005

It takes someone with Murray's reservoir of audience goodwill to make such a maddeningly passive character even worth watching.

| Aug 5, 2005

Flowers is smartly observational -- but a little screen heat would be worth a bouquet.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2005

Those hound-dog eyes, and that weary sneer, reveal a man who understands the value of understatement.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 5, 2005