Harrison's Flowers

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

At its heart, Harrison's Flowers is a love story, albeit a graphic and difficult one.Read Full Review »

A powerful portrait of modern journalism and the nobility -- and futility -- of chronicling modern war.Read Full Review »

The movie's still a solid "B," a workmanlike drama.Read Full Review »

A chintzy melodrama gussied up as hair-trigger combat ''reality,'' but there's no denying the vividness with which the French cowriter-director Elie Chouraqui has visualized the chaos of Croatia.Read Full Review »

As far-fetched as it sometimes seems, the film resonates in the wake of the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.Read Full Review »

The movie exhibits the usual indifference to the issues involved. Although it was written and directed by Elie Chouraqui, a Frenchman, it is comfortably xenophobic. Most Americans have never understood the differences among Croats, Serbs and Bosnians, and this film is no help.Read Full Review »

Director Elie Chouraqui, who co-wrote the script, catches the chaotic horror of war, but why bother if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera?Read Full Review »

A discombobulating mix of blood-and-grit docu-realism and moony multiplex contrivance.Read Full Review »

It's part travelogue in Hell, part ineffectual weepie.Read Full Review »