A new review from The Movie Snob:

Broken Flowers (B-). Despite the critical acclaim, I can't go higher than a B- on this movie. Bill Murray plays Don Johnston, a character with some resemblance to his character in Lost in Translation. Johnston, however, is more emotionally shut down and apathetic -- indeed, he's virtually catatonic. We meet him as the latest in a long line of girlfriends is breaking up with him, and he barely tries to stop her. He is sort of jolted out of his state of inertia when he receives an anonymous letter, purportly from an ex-girlfriend, warning him that he has a 19-year-old son who is out there looking for him. At the urging of his friend Winston, Johnston narrows the list of possible authors to five and sets out to visit each of them to try to figure out which one sent the letter. This yields some juicy parts to several actresses of a certain age (Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange), and the vignettes are interesting. But somehow, the movie just didn't entirely work for me. I think part of my problem was the way Johnston's character is written -- he is so completely inert that it is very difficult to imagine him (1) having a girlfriend (much less a whole bunch of them) and (2) caring enough about the possibility that he has a son to go on a long uncomfortable journey over it.