Harrison's Flowers Reviews

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

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

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/4

Full Review | Original Score: B

Full Review | Original Score: B

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

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A powerhouse of a film about modern journalism and war.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

...a solid, well-acted adventure film that wears its condemnation and acceptance of the vagaries of civil war on its sleeve.

Full Review | Original Score: B

This is a very good film, and it heralds an emerging directorial talent.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

MacDowell ... gives give a solid, anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she's ever done.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

one of those coulda, woulda, shoulda films that frustrates with its unrealized potential

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Because of [MacDowell], the film is moving, if not up to the standards of similar fare such as Under Fire or Welcome to Sarajevo.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

Harrison's Flowers is good. It should have been great.

| Original Score: 3.5/5

Harrison's Flowers' director wisely keeps [Andie] MacDowell quiet for most of the Yugoslavian scenes, leaving [Adrien] Brody to carry the scenes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.25/4

It's the unsettling images of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of Sarah and Harrison.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Remarkable for its power to immerse us in the terror, panic and sheer adrenalized rush of the photojournalist's existence.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

For those looking for a generally well-made picture with a compelling story to tell, you could obviously do far worse than what this film offers.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10