The Penns give committed - and in Dylan's case exposed - performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2022

Sean has powerful, painful scenes with Dylan, who is the spitting image of her mother, Robin Wright, and has inherited some of her poise too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2022

That Penn doesn't want to make a straight crime thriller is laudable - less clear is what he wants to make instead.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 27, 2022

Far from the best of Penn's directing work but also not the worst (The Last Face is unlikely to lose that dubious crown). Dylan emerges the most triumphant Penn from a largely boring drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 24, 2022

Flag Day desperately wants to be an impassioned testament to the lives of both Jennifer and Dylan, but is hardly ever able to escape the myopic lens of its craftsman.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 1, 2021

Clearly, the picture is a labor of love by the Penns, but too often it just feels labored. There's a sense of everyone trying too hard.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2021

Like Penn's character, "Flag Day" never quite pulls through; as much as you want to believe in it, it winds up a disappointment.

| Original Score: C | Aug 26, 2021

Subtle flourishes and evanescent feeling abound throughout "Flag Day," in which Vogel's idealized vision of her father feels simultaneously shining and impossibly tarnished.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 25, 2021

It has so much intimacy to it. You can feel how Sean Penn, the director, is in awe of his daughter.

| Aug 21, 2021

At times quiet and pensive, at others volatile and rebellious, the younger Penn's freshness galvanizes the father-daughter connection and brings Vogel's memoir to life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2021

It's all rather undifferentiated and scattershot.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 20, 2021

It's clear what the film means to be -- a bittersweet portrait of a daughter's love for her incorrigible father. But the characters don't add up. The complexities and nuances that might have brought them fully to life never made it to the screen.

| Aug 19, 2021

"Flag Day" feels as much a love letter from Penn to his own daughter as the story of someone else's.

| Aug 19, 2021

Movies don't give us many father/daughter relationships this complicated, which makes "Flag Day" even more chilling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2021

As it stretches out, it also thins, its Malick-meets-Cassavetes ambitions never rising above clichés of technique and melodrama.

| Aug 19, 2021

Sean Penn directs himself for the first time and has cast Dylan Penn, his daughter with Robin Wright, as the lead - and the two are absolutely mesmerizing together.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2021

Dylan Penn can act. Whatever attention Sean Penn lavished on his daughter to bring out this performance was repaid tenfold.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2021

Flag Day suffers from the same repetitive, wearying cycle of reconciliation and disappointment that tends to make movies about addiction such a drag.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 18, 2021

While the film sometimes struggles with disparate tones, it's a solid, subtle drama that opts in most cases for restraint over excess.

| Jul 13, 2021

A heavy-handed, maladroit take on material that required a sensitive touch.

| Jul 13, 2021