Are audiences ready for a dark comedy on abortion and domestic terrorism in which the leading role–a runaway adolescent New Jersey girl named Aviva–is played by seven different actresses and one actor ...
PALINDROMES With Ellen Barkin, Richard Masur, Jennifer Jason Leigh. Director: Todd Solondz (1:40). Not rated. At the Angelika; starts Friday at Loews 72nd St. 1 Star Since this a review of a movie ...
“Palindromes” begins at the funeral of Dawn Wiener, the hapless heroine of Todd Solondz’s second theatrical release, with a video camera trained on her pine coffin as her brother delivers a backhanded ...
Todd Solondz may be the most self-conscious of movie directors; lately he’s been making films (“Storytelling”) that respond to the way his previous projects have been received. So it should come as no ...
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Maybe there are two kinds of people in the world, those who think Todd Solondz has something new to tell us about the human condition and those who don't. In the interest of full disclosure, it should ...
A moment of silence, please, for Dawn Wiener, the ridiculed and hassled preteen protagonist of Todd Solondz's 1995 "Welcome to the Dollhouse." Dawn, we learn at the beginning of Solondz's new movie, ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... How do you solve a problem like Aviva? Early in “Palindromes,” Todd Solondz’s disturbing, profoundly original film about abortion, choice, religious ...
Todd Solondz, the writer-director of “Palindromes,” seems just as mixed-up as you are. And that is a huge letdown.After skewering society for its taboos and hypocrisies with his previous films — ...
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