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  Review by Austin Shermer ★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Kid, if Billy Murray asks if you're his son you say YES!

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  Review by Travis Lytle ★★★★★ 16

  A film of quiet, droll simplicity, Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers" looks at the complexity of perception. It observes how the people who we touch and who touch us can, to the outside world, define us; and how the things with which they fill their lives define them. Even girded with this knowledge, the outside world may never know the reality of that person or the person they have impacted. Our perception, however, has been born.

  The story through which Jarmusch explore this idea follows Don Johnston, played with an easy magnetism by Bill Murray, as he works to track down a woman who claims to have birthed his child 19 years earlier. Setting about the task of finding the unknown…

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  Review by Sean Baker 6

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  Review by Jizzmonkey ★★★★★ 8

  A man (artfully played by Bill Murray) receives an anonymous letter telling him he is the father of a son he didn't know he had. A thought-provoking film. Makes you really think about all those bar hookups, and whether maybe you shoulda wrapped it more often.

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  Review by Colin the dude ★★★★½ 4

  The last in Murray's renaissance period, Jarmusch slows things down to a melancholic crawl with endless POV driving shots, Murray starring at stuff, pondering with a frown at the stalemate his life is in. This would most likely become a monotonous bore without Murray in the role, but thankfully he is the first person perspective here and there isn't a moment he isn't on screen. He's one of the few actors who can play it deadly straight with the camera locked off on his face and there are many different conclusions to come to on what he is thinking. This is the joy of Broken Flowers, watching Murray think.

  This is a great film to throw on after waking up…

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★

  spin-off movie about chloë sevigny and jessica lange’s characters when

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  Review by theriverjordan ★★★★ 23

  “Broken Flowers” is Jim Jarmusch’s absurdist elegy. The film embraces the act of searching; knowing that anything found will be a self-made illusion. 

  If Tom Hanks has made an image for himself as the dad that everyone wants, Bill Murray’s brand is the absent father. The pop who took a last look back at you, before heading out on a cigarette run that lasted 20 years. 

  Director Jim Jarmusch cranks Murray’s late career ennui up to Maximum Sad in “Flowers,” where the actor plays a childless career man who is left by his wife on the same day that he receives a letter revealing he might be father to a previously unknown 19-year-old son. 

  This sets Murray off on an…

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  Review by Mary Conti ★★★★½ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Part of the Jim Jarmusch Retrospective

  Don Johnston is no one. He may have his own unique quirks, his own close friend, and his own history, but he is a nobody. He is only an archetype. Early in Broken Flowers he is seen watching Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Don Juan with Douglas Fairbanks, one of many people to play the character, and Bill Murray's Don Johnston is just another actor in the role of the reality of the character. Johnston doesn't show much emotion in this scene, but we can tell deep down there is a feeling of regret due to the fact there is nothing to define his life. It's to his own credit that he "did…

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  Review by DNA cinephile🏳️‍🌈 ★★★★ 2

  Broken Flowers. 2005. Directed by Jim Jarmusch.

  If one is a Jim Jarmusch fan, then one would consider this a gem in his filmography. However, if one is not familiar with the slow pacing, regular cast choices, and hipster music this may not be a film that one would seek out. This is our second viewing and we find Broken Flowers (2005) to be an engaging neo-noir-ish/drama. The ending is vague but it is the journey and being in the present/now is Jarmusch’s focus. I ladore the beauty of this simple story and the ensemble cast is so much fun. As each character is revealed, it is like a present is opened with unexpected prizes (e.g. one completely nude Lolita…

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  Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★ 10

  Slow-burn character drama-slash-travelogue from Jim Jarmusch featuring Bill Murray, and if that doesn't make you want to go out and watch it there's no secret waiting at the end of the journey that will change your mind. It's basically a series of vignettes bookended by Murray's interaction with Jeffrey Wright doing the best work I've ever seen from him.

  For me, the story is about a man who searches through his past for a quilting point in his past that will make his present more recognizable to him. But I've read several other reviews which give different interpretations of the story (about a man who visits a series of his old flames), and I think the real strength of the…

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  Review by megan ★★½ 1

  i would rather die than possibly have bill murray as my dad

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  Review by Edgar Cochran ★★★½ 8

  Winner of the Grand Prize of the Jury for the first time and nominated for the Palme d´Or for the fifth time in 2005, Broken Flowers follows a very similar tradition of Alexander Payne’s About Schmidt (2002) regarding the adventures of an aged man that makes an undesired journey to discover more about his family bonds but ends up discovering more about himself and the importance of the present life.

  Dedicated to Jean Eustache, the superior post-Nouvelle Vague independent filmmaker – even if I humbly think that Stranger than Paradise (1984) would have been a much more honorable and appropriate dedication – Broken Flowers opts for common storytelling techniques that circle around a common story that progresses uncommonly. It is…