Flower
Orchard, The | Release Date: March 16, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
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Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
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6
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8
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezApr 28, 2017
Flower is hilarious one moment, tender the next and takes some surprising turns. And it certainly doesn’t hurt to have a dynamic lead who steadily navigates the twists with an emotional authenticity that keeps the movie on its bumpy track. Read full review
80
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 15, 2018
Cruelly amoral and only marginally credible, Flower is nevertheless wildly entertaining and at times even touching. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisMar 21, 2018
Doesn’t have a dull frame in it, thanks mainly to the star-making performance of Zoey Deutch, who dazzles the screen as Erica with her mix of humor, sensuality, volatility and vulnerability. Read full review
75
The Film StageMurphy KenefickMar 15, 2018
Even with the ways it handles some dicey thematic material, Flower is an engaging ride that largely serves as a vehicle for the excellent Deutch, and further shines the spotlight on telling stories about empathetic young women. Read full review
70
Village VoiceApril WolfeMar 14, 2018
Flower is messy and imperfect and above all else a star-making role for Deutch, who carries this film from funny to tragic and back again. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichApr 28, 2017
At times, [Deutch's] performance is perhaps even too strong for the film that’s cobbled together around it, as the actress so convincingly indicates at Erica’s vibrant and complex inner life that she embarrasses the script’s feeble attempts to diagnose and solve her character. Read full review
55
TheWrapTodd GilchristMar 14, 2018
Audiences get a collection of great performances, led by a truly exceptional one, in search of a script that’s worthy of them in a movie with so much to offer that disappointingly, but bafflingly, seems determined to add up to less than the sum of its parts. Read full review
55
Paste MagazineJacob OllerMar 12, 2018
There are two movies here, and the actors handle that duality well. But the brooding darkness lurking inside these characters needs a drama of its own. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTom RussoMar 21, 2018
The film is quite the showcase for Zoey Deutch (“Before I Fall”), giving her loose-scripted freedom to play brazen, breezy, even soulfully vulnerable. Still, her selectively promiscuous hellion is so off-putting so much of the time — as are most of those around her, and their lurid plots and predicaments — it’s hard to see the point of it all. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenMar 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. It can't make Erica Vandross' fate matter, but in Deutch it gives us a motor-mouthed wonder who commands attention. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghMar 22, 2018
For 90 minutes we’re presented with idiot characters who do terrible things to themselves and each other, and in its final gasp the movie tries to retrofit them into heroes. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMar 22, 2018
There’s a naivete about the film that only a teen at heart could love. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeMar 16, 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. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckApr 28, 2017
Uneasily combining its determinedly edgy plotline with failed sentimentality, Flower is redeemed only by Zoey Deutch’s magnetic performance, which would be star-making if in the service of a better vehicle. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMar 22, 2018
Everyone here is simply a mismanaged thing to be moved around an isn’t-that-shocking storyboard as needed. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineChuck BowenMar 14, 2018
Flower is a sentimental work of faux nihilism, pandering to children who’re just discovering alienation. Read full review
37
Washington PostStephanie MerryMar 19, 2018
Flower can’t quite nail the necessary tone, aiming for dark, but missing the comedy. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaMar 15, 2018
I’ll give Flower props — 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. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzMar 21, 2018
The cast's heroic exertions fail to save Flower from its own worst tendencies. Read full review
0
TheWrapDan CallahanApr 28, 2017
There are some movies that are misguided in a simple way, and then there are those rare unrelentingly awful movies like Flower that decide to go wrong in as many ways as possible in as short a time as possible. Read full review
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