Here’s a hard-hitting drama that doesn’t shy away from showing the atrocities committed under the tag of “ethnic cleaning.”

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 30, 2024

The film presents an intense dose of reality -- too intense for some, maybe -- and it leaves us with a bitter aftertaste.

| Nov 19, 2008

Provides powerful drama thanks to its trenchant core story and harrowing re-creation of the brutal chaos of war.

| Jun 5, 2008

Built on a foundation of melodrama and implausible coincidence, Harrison's Flowers is a movie that looks far better on paper than it does onscreen.

Full Review | Original Score: 61/100 | Jul 11, 2007

A stronger actress, say Michelle Pfeiffer or Cate Blanchette, would have given this political melodrama more credibility and power, but Andie MacDowell is poorly cast and she seems lost.

| Original Score: C | Oct 30, 2006

When describing an Andie MacDowell movie, the words "gritty" and "harrowing" do not immediately spring to mind.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 9, 2003

Acutely shows the pain and horror war inflicts on regular people.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2003

Lacking gravitas, MacDowell is a placeholder for grief, and ergo this sloppy drama is an empty vessel. Leave these Flowers unpicked -- they're dead on the vine.

| Original Score: D | May 27, 2003

Hope, desperation and the ugliness of ethnic cleansing intersect elegantly in director Elie Chouraqui's intense retelling of the 1991 Croatian-Serbian conflict in Yugoslavia.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2003

...overly melodramatic...

| Original Score: C | Jan 30, 2003

Visceral, unrelenting, affecting and, as often, exasperating.

| Jan 20, 2003

| Original Score: B | Dec 17, 2002

Utterly predictable and idiotically scripted by writer/director Elie Chouraqui.

| Oct 21, 2002

Ultimately, Sarah's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic, and nothing in the movie makes a convincing case that one woman's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 15, 2002

| Original Score: B | Sep 18, 2002

This story of a determined woman's courage to find her husband in a war zone offers winning performances and some effecting moments.

| Aug 27, 2002

The movie too often works against itself, pitting an increasingly implausible story with Chouraqui's hard-core realism.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Aug 9, 2002

A powerhouse of a film about modern journalism and war.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2002

This is a good movie in spurts, but when it doesn't work, it's at important times.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Jun 28, 2002

The images and performances are gripping enough to override the melodramatic missteps.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2002