Empathizing with toxic personalities and very preventable poor choices is a tough sell, no matter the attempts at charm.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 13, 2024

What I immediately loved about Flower is that Winkler does not shy away from letting the audience know where he is taking his film from the opening moments.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

The beauty of Flower is less in its wonky storyline and more in its effervescent performances.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Bold, funny yet disturbingly honest film that takes difficult to love characters and makes you love them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

Flower acts as a prime example of work that goes completely off the rails and, in attempts to reground itself, just deepens itself in a pit both narratively and ethically.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 24, 2020

Really, there's nothing cute or quirky about an underage kid who keeps a penis sketchbook of all the adults she blackmails, but this film seems to be trying to convince us otherwise.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 18, 2020

Flower is a film that sneaks up on you with its ability to make you laugh and power to make you feel something for these sometimes tough-to-like characters.

| Jun 3, 2020

...it is a shame that Max Winkler's debut, with its muddy gender politics, isn't a better film.

| Feb 27, 2020

Flower is the Zoey Deutch show, which luckily for Max Winkler is a program I'll never flip off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2019

[Zoey Deutch] and her co-stars will bring you depth, heartbreak, and joy in a scant 2 hours.

| Original Score: B | Oct 17, 2019

Zoey Deutch creates a compelling, ultimately touching lead character and the film is a strong portrait of the perils of coming-of-age for young women.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2019

Mixes teenage angst with bouts of dark comedy that takes inherently risky material and nearly destroys it with utter implausibility.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2018

Encapsulated within the set-up of a dark comedy, Flower finds delicate moments of connection and healing in the strangest of places - extortion and kidnapping.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 29, 2018

While consistently raunchy, Flower manages to remain funny even after the final act takes a tonal shift and heads into even darker territory.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Nov 29, 2018

The best thing about Flowers, bar none, is Zoey Deutch.

| Original Score: B | Nov 1, 2018

Eventually the film's aesthetic and substantive beauty collide, at which point "Flower" becomes more than the sum of its parts, much like its main characters find in each other's company.

| Oct 23, 2018

In a perfect world, Zoey Deutch would be in contention later on this year for a Best Actress nomination.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 13, 2018

Bin it in the same place you put your bouquet from Valentine's Day.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Aug 27, 2018

It's a mediocre film that loses its way about halfway through and never regains its footing.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 21, 2018

The seeds of something beautiful are present, but "Flower" never seems to blossom into anything worthwhile.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 14, 2018