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By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 15 Mar 2002

You might say that world news has caught up with Harrison's Flowers, making it both topical and suddenly relevant…

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By Kim Morgan (275) for Oregonian (1,550) on 15 Mar 2002

We just don't really care too much about this love story. In that setting, their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting…

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By Kevin John Bozelka (11) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 15 Mar 2002

It's as if the complex backdrop of war could support only the most generic melodrama…

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By Ray Conlogue (58) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 15 Mar 2002

Hogwash American sentimentality in a film that shows raped children and brutish soldiers is both disorienting and troubling…

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By Susan Stark (256) for Detroit News (2,682) on 15 Mar 2002

The script's judgment and sense of weight is way, way off…

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By Steven Rosen (101) for Denver Post (1,096) on 15 Mar 2002

It uses the pain and violence of war as background material for color…

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By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 15 Mar 2002

It's that very savagery -- not its love-can-conquer-all theme -- that makes Harrison's Flowers worth picking…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 15 Mar 2002

The scenes of carnage are so well-staged and convincing that they make the movie's story even harder to believe…

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By Michael Tunison (43) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 15 Mar 2002

A stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the…

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By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 15 Mar 2002

Every moving performance or brain-searing battle scene is counteracted by...contrivances, narrative blunders & continuity gaffes...too obtrusive…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 15 Mar 2002

Suddenly topical because of parallels to the kidnapping and death of Daniel Pearl…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 15 Mar 2002

The outcome for Sarah and Harrison starts to feel slightly irrelevant, compared to the awfulness they observe and endure…

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By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 15 Mar 2002

Leaves us with a heightened appreciation of the bold and personal films made by a number of filmmakers of the former Yugoslavia…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 14 Mar 2002

MacDowell gives an uneven performance, as she often does, but Strathairn is ideally cast as the conflicted husband…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 14 Mar 2002

MacDowell brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her role. She's strong stuff in a movie that is likewise gripping and powerful…

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By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 14 Mar 2002

MacDowell and Brody give emotionally galvanizing performances, but too often Flowers arranges itself on a bier that goes flat…

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By Jessica Winter (193) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Mar 2002

A discombobulating mix of blood-and-grit docu-realism and moony multiplex contrivance…

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By Jon Popick (633) for Planet Sick-Boy (616) on 06 Mar 2002

While the story does seem pretty unbelievable at times, it's awfully entertaining to watch…

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By Erica Abeel (109) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 26 Jan 2002

Chouraqui earnestly displays the Balkan horrors till we scarcely react any more to the latest deafening detonation or pile-up of bodies…

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