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D.M. Palmer

D.M. Palmer's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Mysterious Skin (2004) 86% EDIT “No-one was better equipped to capture the mood of youth coming to terms with a post-9/11 reality.” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Splendor (1999) 62% EDIT “There is a tension at play between what Araki had been and what he could become; Splendor has the feel of an attempt to assimilate into a new consciousness, one built on shifting sand.” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Nowhere (1997) 50% EDIT “It is the cinematic equivalent of shoegaze music — dreamy and disorienting in equal measure, evincing a disquieting sensuality filled with stark close-ups, disconcerting angles and fractured editing. ” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review The Doom Generation (1995) 55% EDIT “Gregg Araki envisages the final decade of the century as a rampant forest fire of kitsch and catastrophe...” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998) 100% EDIT “Before Quentin Tarantino popularized the practice, Araki was a master of curating tracks.” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988) 76% EDIT “Araki structures the film to replicate the restless perceptions of its characters; it flits between vignettes, loses interest, then moves on to the next attraction...” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review The Decline of Western Civilization (1981) 100% EDIT “...emblematic of the cultural sect being catalogued...” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Totally F... ed Up (1993) 100% EDIT “Araki positions his movie as a twisted take on the “message film” of the 1950s...” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review The Living End (1992) 73% EDIT “The film’s characters set out to deface an edifice that has shut them out; they choose death over acceptance...” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review 4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011) 48% EDIT “The knowledge of this loss permits the artist to arrive at a truer recognition of self, to cast off all previous encumbrances and allow the fatalistic spirit to become a crucible, forging fresh perspectives...” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Welcome to New York (2014) 77% EDIT “Ferrara articulates that this is a New York he no longer recognizes; it has to be viewed from afar now, it is invested with a spirit he no longer comprehends. Nevertheless, Devereaux’s downfall must be witnessed in all its unseemly detail...” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Siberia (2019) 65% EDIT “In the course of his travels, Clint begins to grasp the frailty of the form and the vulnerability of the vessel.” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Pasolini (2014) 79% EDIT “Ferrara’s jumbling of languages in Pasolini offered a way forward, reaching towards a medium in which modes of communication become equivalent...” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Tommaso (2019) 81% EDIT “Cinema as a form of processing...” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Go Go Tales (2007) 70% EDIT “Abel Ferrara’s films of this period address the destruction of worlds, and the persistence of exiled spirits looking to stake a claim for their personal version. ” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Piazza Vittorio (2017) EDIT “What could be termed Ferrara’s “exile cycle” is concerned with characters struggling to accept the death of what they once knew, and thought would last forever, living in conditions of permanent indeterminacy.” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (2009) EDIT “A legitimate auteur uses his own life as a canvas, blending fiction and documentary to arrive upon a unique form of self-discovery...” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Zeros and Ones (2021) 54% EDIT “An atmospheric but disjointed no-budget thriller. The war thriller is pretty underwhelming fare, but its mere existence attests to the tenacity of its creator.” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Climax (2018) 69% EDIT “The film documents the dissipation of idealism and the gradual slide into self-annihilation...” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Love (2015) 42% EDIT “Noé once again conflates pleasure and death, regarding them as being part of the same process — that every sensation sets in motion the negation of that energy, that each merging carries the germ of dissolution.” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review I Stand Alone (1998) 88% EDIT “The stylistic and structural disorientation Noé creates leaves the viewer feeling unmoored from a stable frame...” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Irréversible (2002) 60% EDIT “As Irréversible works its way back to the beginning, the frame stabilises. But this proves illusory, forcing viewers to witness with harrowing clarity a descent into another underworld...” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Enter the Void (2009) 73% EDIT “An attack on the senses...” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review The Third Generation (1979) 92% EDIT “In Fassbinder’s conception of West Germany following its chaotic autumn, terror takes on the tenor of performance art.” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review The Magic Christian (1970) 61% EDIT “The Magic Christian cries out to be re-visited. For all the cultural specificity of the novel and film, Grand remains a strikingly modern figure.” – Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023 Full Review
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