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

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

Deutch burns up the screen in ways that are so passionately multifaceted I was dumbstruck by all of the emotional nuances she was able to mine with such aggressively calming ease.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2018

Everyone here is simply a mismanaged thing to be moved around an isn't-that-shocking storyboard as needed. It's a shame, as Deutch shows real commitment to a role that demands the exact opposite ...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 23, 2018

There isn't a single kernel of emotional truth to be found in "Flower," a lamentable dark comedy that treats subjects such as teen suicide, pedophilia and drug use with the nuance of a jackhammer.

| Original Score: F | Mar 23, 2018

As a starring vehicle for [Zoey] Deutch, Flower is an aromatic concoction, but as a thorny coming-of-age story the film's buds wither on the vine.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 22, 2018

Deutch's portrayal of Erica is truly impressive, giving us a fully fleshed character who's both vulnerable and remorseless.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2018

It feels like the work of indie filmmakers weaned on Todd Solondz movies, adopting all of the ugliness but none of the insight, without even shock value to show for it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 22, 2018

It's hard to see the point of it all.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2018

"Flower" can't quite nail the necessary tone, aiming for dark, but missing the comedy.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 20, 2018

Flower is clearly not everyone's idea of a bouquet, but it's willing to take chances -- and push buttons. It's a film that reflects our times, even if it makes us uncomfortable to acknowledge it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2018

If you could pour the worst tendencies of American independent cinema over the last twenty years into a gigantic soup tureen and let it simmer overnight, this film would be the unappetizing result.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Mar 19, 2018

As icky a comedy as you're likely to see this year, Flower comes from an angry place - one that is clearly more concerned about sounding provocative and clever than having anything meaningful to say.

| Mar 18, 2018

A film that's fake-transgressive: eager to shock, but never to the point where it causes any lasting discomfort or makes any disquieting insight.

| Mar 15, 2018

Mistaking provocation for insight, and failing to sell the presumed heroism of its cunning central character, the movie grows less involving with each step.

| Mar 15, 2018

Cruelly amoral and only marginally credible, "Flower" is nevertheless wildly entertaining and at times even touching.

| Mar 15, 2018

In an age when so many teen movies are grasping so desperately for message-y topicality, it does the impossible, and manages to be about nothing at all.

| Mar 14, 2018

A collection of great performances, led by a truly exceptional one, in search of a script that's worthy of them.

| Mar 14, 2018

Flower is a sentimental work of faux nihilism, pandering to children who're just discovering alienation.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 14, 2018

[Zoey Deutch] carries the film, appearing in every scene, and gives an injection of gritty reality to a character who could otherwise have felt like a stand-in for the sexually curious millennial woman.

| Mar 13, 2018

Even when the movie ends, we feel like we're only scratching the surface. Still, how refreshing to see a coming-of-age story that's less concerned about a teen losing her innocence than it is in how she might earn some of it back.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 8, 2018