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Apr 28, 2005 · Todd Solondz's "Palindromes" is a brave and challenging film for which there may not be much of an audience. That is not a fault of the film, which does not want to be liked and only casually hopes to be understood. What it wants is to provoke. You do not emerge untouched from a Solondz film.
Apr 13, 2005 · 43% 119 Reviews Tomatometer 69% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score An underage girl horrifies her parents by getting pregnant, then runs away after they force her to have an abortion.
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- Ellen Barkin
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Todd Solondz's latest provocation is Palindromes, yet another uncomfortable fable of suburban dysfunction, puberty, and statutory rape. Full Review | Jun 21, 2005 Steve Schneider Orlando Weekly
Aviva goes through many strange and sometimes disturbing escapades. This film explores the tender subjects of abortion, statutory rape, religious extremists, pedophilia, and change. Essentially, Aviva and the other characters end up having names that are palindromes ie. Bob etc.
Apr 13, 2005 · 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.
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Palindromes holds a 43% rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 120 reviews with an average rating of 5.31/10. The site's critical consensus states: "Unique but cold". [7] The film grossed $553,368 in the domestic box office and $707,269 worldwide after almost 23 weeks in theatrical release. [8]
Oct 11, 2004 · A palindrome refers both to an inverted strand of DNA or words or phrases that read the same forward and backward, and in his misguided Palindromes, Todd Solondz applies a forward-and-backward reflexivity to his narrative in a way that reduces female sexuality and the human experience.
