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ReviewScore: 41 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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Reviews of German director Volker Schlondorff's Palmetto, which opens today (Friday), are about as noir as the film itself. Jack Mathews, writing for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times, calls it a "parade of film noir clichés and caricatures." USA Today's Mike Clark says that Woody Harrelson does bring some "mordant humor" to the production that may be "crucial compensation" for Schlondorff's failure to bring "dramatic urgency" to it. Desmond Ryan in the Philadelphia Inquirer also calls the director's work in Palmetto "curiously uninvolving, particularly given his past "masterly" work on The Tin Drum and Swann in Love. "Liberated from art, Schlondorff turns out to be a closet schlockmeister," says Jami Bernard in the New York Daily News. Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post faults Schlondorff for a film noir that turns out to be "not ironic, but somewhat dull and sluggish." And, chimes in Thelma Adams in the New York Post, "If there's a bitterness to Palmetto, it's that even the brilliant Schlondorff can lose his edge and end up being just another sucker at the Hollywood trough." |
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