Palindromes Critic Reviews
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Then there's Todd Solondz's Palindromes, which is that rare event: a memorable provocation.Read the full review
If the movie is a moral labyrinth, it is paradoxically straightforward and powerful in the moment; each individual story has an authenticity and impact of its own.Read the full review
As depressing as it is hard to watch, Palindromes is also consistently, horrifyingly funny and sharp-witted, and the darker and more well-observed its humor, the more it belies the director's unsentimental, even grudging empathy for his fellow DNA monkeys.Read the full review
What makes Palindromes bearable is that Solondz has yet to come up with an answer.Read the full review
Palindromes isn't a wise movie, or a particularly true movie, but it's an honest one and a singular experience.Read the full review
Solondz likes to put the screws to moral hypocrisy. As always, he goes too far. As always, you don't want to look away.Read the full review
Palindromes becomes a strangely compelling fractured fable, a grim cinematic fairy tale heightened by Nathan Larson's delicate, bittersweet score.Read the full review
The experience isn't for everyone. But it amounts to intellectual penicillin for our sequel-driven, franchise-heavy entertainment culture.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
It's a highly stylized piece of work typical of director Todd Solondz, who renders wildly exaggerated sequences on a topic not generally thought of as a basis for comedy. He leaves it to the viewer to decide if it's insightful whimsy or meaningless drivel.Read the full review
