Palindromes
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53 out of 100

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  • Starring: Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly Guirgis
  • Summary: Described as a "fable of innocence," his latest film allows Todd Solondz to savor the profound flavor of moral complexity. (Wellspring Media)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 36
  3. Negative: 9 out of 36
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Like all this adventurous filmmaker's work, it's truly one of a kind.
  2. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Eric Campos
    80
    You love Solondz's films, you'll love Palindromes. That same twisted sense of humor is there and certain scenes go on for an uncomfortably long time, but you wind up savoring the discomfort.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Rooney
    60
    Like the symmetrical word that supplies its title, the mordant comedy-drama recovers ground to become a boldly intriguing if not entirely satisfying subversion of American family values.
  4. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    38
    On the evidence of Palindromes, the most misanthropic, depressing, hopeless film in memory, I'd hazard that for Solondz, childhood is a problem without a solution.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 4 out of 12
  1. M.Daye
    10
    Fiendishly bittersweet, Palindromes will have you both laughing at and feeling for the most sensitive of characters.
  2. RONGIU
    9
    Sorry, translation Italian / English mechanics.

    It 'a film emotionally powerful, indeed, very strong. The palindrome Solondziana script leave    s the viewer sensoramiche endless possibilities. There are EIGHT actors for the character of AVIVA, but not the number of actors who are interested, since the possibility of empathic contact chance to hear "from within, in the making" / people around me; minimizing the risk of confusion un'incidentale. For this reason, Palindromes goes "observed". So I understand.

    All of us, I think, if we look at our life, its most significant events, we try to draw, memory after memory, an emotional map. Inevitably the contents of this map contains words that express feelings, engaging, such as desire, friendship, love, passion, possession, nausea, joy, anger, enthusiasm, positivity, nervousness, impatience, disappointment, anger, revenge, despair, hatred / and so on. Palindromes is all about.

    Palindrome, is the unchanging part of us, like it or not. And 'This is the border, this is the extreme boundary, whether genetic, psychological wish that each of us must face in order to learn to accept it. But, everything in us that is blank, inert, may undergo changes, albeit small? The films of Todd Solondz, "guts" of society, its conventions and beliefs, and does so with a director and a screenplay that follow a chromatic scale psychological changes, nuanced and saturations.
    The viewer, the task of "tuning" not at all simple.

    Luckiness!    … Expand

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