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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 Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★★ 7

  Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray are a match made in heaven. The director’s deliberate pacing and tendencies to awkward and lingering shots work incredibly well with Bill Murray’s trademark dry, often deadpan sense of humor.

  First of all, Murray does an awesome job, delivering one of his best performances as this middle-aged man and former womanizer who receives an anonymous letter suggesting he has a son. Prompted by curiosity, Don embarks on a journey to reconnect with past lovers who might hold the answers to his mysterious paternity. The actor perfectly captured the character's loneliness, self-doubt, and longing for connection. However, while the film is riddled with these great philosophical questions about life and romance, there’s also plenty of humor…

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ suspirliam ˊˎ˗ ★★★

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

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  Review by Sean Baker 6

  Rewatch on Peacock.tv

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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 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 Jizzmonkey ★★★★★ 6

  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 megan ★★½ 1

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

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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 Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti" ★★★★

  "Broken Flowers" is a driven introspective journey to find reason. It plays on the "Don Juan" subtype as one seems to have considerable success in the department of romance within the onset of early years, but yet focuses on the often-forgotten element of life would possibly be like within the later years. Bill Murray plays the role of Don (don't forget the "t") Johnston who lives a comfortable retirement in his later years but finds himself being partially alone in fulfillment. There is nothing particularly incorrect about his prior life of romance, but as there is function way of being, there is a resulting action. Don simply never settled, and this way of being (in what is already an unspoken…

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  Review by emma katharine ★★★★½ 3

  jim jarmusch is the lower east side of manhattan and wes anderson is the hollywood hills.