The film is slight, not especially malicious. Murray is entertaining to watch, even when, or perhaps especially when, he does not have a great deal to do.

Full Review | Feb 15, 2021

One of Jim Jarmusch's finer films.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 4, 2020

A movie of wry humor and wry observations.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 24, 2019

The film, and its very oxymoronic title, "Broken Flowers", acts as a metaphor for the anti-epiphanies that exploring your past can present.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2018

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

Full Review | Mar 14, 2018

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

Full Review | Sep 26, 2017

Murray shows us that what was behind his early-period jaded-hipster shtick was a melancholy and fearful man.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Dec 29, 2015

Insightful, entertaining, and a worthy addition to the filmography of one of America's more interesting modern directors.

Full Review | Original Score: 62/100 | Sep 26, 2009

Throbs with compressed emotion

Full Review | Sep 5, 2009

Murray's performance is a highlight in a very entertaining dramedy.

Full Review | Apr 29, 2009

Funny, disciplined, and acted with great skill and warmth.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2008

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

Full Review | Aug 16, 2007

Each encounter is a finely observed and beautifully performed vignette in its own right, but together they sketch out a past from which our grey Lothario has been irrevocably set adrift.

Full Review | Jul 2, 2007

Womanizer cads may be front and center in movies. But surprisingly sometimes, so are the impressive accompanying ensemble righteous females who cut them nicely down to size, and the quirky and twisted Broken Flowers is no exception.

Full Review | May 25, 2007

The auteur's unbeatable weirdness here mutates into preciosity.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2007

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

Full Review | Sep 28, 2006

This is a film about insufficiency on so many levels, a film not of hipster indifference, but of a certain effete inability to react.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2006

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

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

In Murray [Jarmusch] has found his quintessential actor.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 4, 2006

It's about questions, not easy answers, and its refusal to provide them might frustrate some viewers unaccustomed to Jarmusch's elliptical style.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2006