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05/12/06
Palindromes (2005)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:16
Rotten:17
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Unique but cold.
Theatrical Release:Apr 13, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $476,497
Synopsis: With PALINDROMES, fiercely independent writer-director Todd Solondz (HAPPINESS, STORYTELLING) places the topic of abortion under his scathing microscope. This time around, Solondz takes an even... [More]
Starring: Ellen Barkin, Debra Monk, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Director: Todd Solondz
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Reviews for Palindromes
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07/21/05
Top CriticThe movie's oppressive atmosphere of flatly rendered, all-consuming determinism leaves it sparkless, pointless and ultimately not very funny.
05/13/05
Top CriticIn its own peculiar way, it is a more compassionate and useful religious document than Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.
05/13/05
Top CriticLet the discomfort commence.
05/07/05
Top CriticPalindromes" isn't a wise movie, or a particularly true movie, but it's an honest one and a singular experience.
05/06/05
Top CriticAn intellectually satisfying puzzle.
05/06/05
Top CriticHe has a vision. No question about that. But in the end, he leaves us wondering why we should share it.
05/06/05
Top CriticA squirmer of a movie.
05/06/05
Top CriticIt's a more challenging trek, but well worth it for some.
05/05/05
Top CriticIndie filmmaker Todd Solondz deserves credit for thinking outside the box and challenging his audience. But this time, he steps over the line that distinguishes challenging from confusing.
05/05/05
Top CriticUnlike anything you've seen at the movies. Plus, the picture is often redeemed by the director's daunting intelligence and pitch-black humor.
05/05/05
Top CriticSolondz presents his characters as such exaggerated monsters that they don't resemble human beings as much as helplessly squirming specimens under his poison-tipped probe.
04/29/05
Top CriticIf you don't want your deepest convictions about adolescence, motherhood, and the abortion wars raked over the coals, you should probably stay home.
04/29/05
Top CriticNo comic filmmaker in America today works so hard to stay on the knife's edge between humor and pathos or is so eager to challenge his viewers emotionally.
04/29/05
Top CriticYou do not emerge untouched from a Solondz film. You may hate it, but you have seen it, and in a strange way it has seen you.
04/28/05
Top CriticFor those willing to take it, Palindromes has its share of backhanded rewards.
04/28/05
Top CriticThe most misanthropic, depressing, hopeless film in memory.
04/28/05
Top CriticI still don't like it much, but I respect it --because it's the kind of film most American filmmakers won't make, bristling with the kind of issues and questions they hesitate to face.
04/28/05
Top CriticSolondz likes to put the screws to moral hypocrisy. As always, he goes too far. As always, you don't want to look away.
04/21/05
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