The Flower of Evil: Critic Reviews
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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)75Wonderfully mordant, dry-eyed family saga.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Elvis Mitchell New York Times (Top Critic)40Ms. Flon almost achieves for the movie what her character does for her relatives -- she's just not enough.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)Eminently watchable because of the care and precision Chabrol takes in the interaction among his characters.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)63As usual, Chabrol manages to get us worked up over these people, but any further investment is hard to justify.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Jessica Winter Village Voice (Top Critic)Another tastefully baroque roasting of petty bourgeois rites within suffocating domestic environs.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)63While it's not quite as satisfying as his underappreciated Merci pour le chocolat (2000), it's still nasty fun at the expense of the upper middle class.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Jane Sumner Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)59This three-generation melodrama, set in the Bordeaux region, may be just an elegant shadow of 'the gallic Hitchcock,' but even pale and dry, it's still Chabrol and sippable.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Michael Booth Denver Post (Top Critic)Leave reason behind, back in steerage class, and simply breathe in the foibles of the (upper) crust on this creme brulee.Full Review » 8 years ago
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)75I feel such an affection for Chabrol and his work that I probably can't see The Flower of Evil as it would be experienced by a first-time viewer.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)100Stylish, ingenious and gleaming with charm, wit and malice, it's another expert blend of domestic drama and crime thriller, a vivisection of the bourgeoisie.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)63A minor work from a major talent.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Richard Nilsen Arizona Republic (Top Critic)80Each of the characters in the film is so real, so fully drawn, that you feel you know him or her as a person, not as fiction.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)I would prefer to think of it as a masterly work of the artist's late period rather than as the tired product of his old age.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Lisa Nesselson Variety (Top Critic)Full Review » 3 years ago
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Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)50It's a drawn-out look at politics that's largely devoid of the trademark humor that long ago got New Wave veteran Chabrol labeled the Gallic Hitchcock.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)It has been drained of dramatic tension, leaving only an arid examination of manners and mores.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)80This is another gratifying gem from a master.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Time OutFull Review » 6 years ago
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Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall50There's a solid message here about wealth and hypocrisy, but it's watered down by the opaque storytelling.Full Review » 8 years ago
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Empire Magazine80Full Review » 8 years ago
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Jamie Russell BBC60Full Review » 8 years ago
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Dennis Schwartz Ozus' World Movie Reviews59An unsatisfying payoff.Full Review » 8 years ago
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Sean Means Salt Lake Tribune63Chabrol has his moments of visual wit ... but mostly The Flower of Evil is a poky and uninvolving thriller of knotted family ties and convoluted histories.Full Review » 8 years ago
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Jeff Vice Deseret News, Salt Lake City50Neither as shocking nor as enlightening as it obviously intends to be -- or as it believes itself to be.Full Review » 8 years ago
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John Monaghan Detroit Free Press75The strength of this movie is how it starts as a standard whodunit only to become something else: a cunning Chabrol study of incest and old money peppered with a wicked sense of humor.Full Review » 8 years ago
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