Solondz may want to universalize Aviva, but too much of this film seems to come only from the Solondz universe, in which he looks down on all of us as gullible cretins.
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05/12/05
Palindromes (2005)
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Reviews Counted:110
Fresh:47
Rotten:63
Average Rating:5.3/10
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
A mostly uncomfortable experience that doesn't carry a compensating degree of insight or impact.
05/10/05
Beating up the viewer with grotesquerie is a worthy goal only when there's a point to it, such as self-examination.
05/08/05
It's a film that demands you get deep inside its troubled heroine's psyche by continually yanking the rug out from under you with her inconsistent outward appearance.
05/08/05
Let 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 CriticThere isn't a single happy moment to rest upon.
05/06/05
Not much more than trickery and artifice, and not worth the death of dear, departed Dawn.
05/06/05
An intellectually satisfying puzzle.
05/06/05
Palindromes, for all its experimental verve—played out in a deliberate affectless style that becomes its own strange affect—cancels itself out.
05/06/05
He 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
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05/06/05
Aviva ... learns that everything and everyone sucks. Which we've already learned if we've watched any of Solondz's other movies.
05/05/05
It'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
Unlike 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 CriticThe characters in Solondz films spend their entire existences in that uncomfortable split second, and his unique achievement is that, for 90 minutes or so, he makes us exist right there with them.
05/05/05
A film desperately trying to distract you from how little there is behind it.
05/05/05
The confusion mounts along with Solondz's bubbling satire of the dark corners of humanity.
05/05/05
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