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Landon Palmer

Landon Palmer's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Buena Vista Social Club: Adiós (2017) 70% EDIT “...for a musical project so ripe with history and history making, especially in the face of a changing Cuba, these subjects deserve a film with a clearer idea of what it has to say.” – Nonfics (Substack) May 25, 2017 Full Review Buena Vista Social Club (1999) 92% EDIT “Buena Vista Social Club resonates almost like a diplomatic effort that helped set the stage for a post-revolutionary relationship to Cuba, a rare meeting between neighbors after decades of distance.” – Nonfics (Substack) May 9, 2017 Full Review Station to Station (2015) 72% 1/5 EDIT “With all its flashing light, distracting noise and vacant pretense, Station to Station brings the potent energy previously exhibited in the union of cinema and locomotives to a standstill.” – Nonfics (Substack) Aug 21, 2015 Full Review A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) 88% 5/5 EDIT “And this is A Poem is a Naked Person's accomplishment: composing a symphonic harmony of seemingly dissociated activities and subjects into one comprehensive, elegantly organized and, yes, even poetic whole.” – Nonfics (Substack) Jul 6, 2015 Full Review Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll (2014) 100% 4/5 EDIT “...not only recovers important music but also examines the devastating toll that a violent international conflict takes on culture” – Nonfics (Substack) Apr 22, 2015 Full Review The Wrecking Crew (2008) 94% 2/5 EDIT “The Wrecking Crew resonates as a hastily assembled missed opportunity, an introduction of interesting, feature-worthy content that spends more than 90 minutes only journeying skin-deep.” – Nonfics (Substack) Mar 13, 2015 Full Review Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets (2014) 85% 3/5 EDIT “[Pulp] forgoes hagiography in favor of something simpler and, seemingly, more honest: a portrait of a band in a moment that allows them to reflect on their history.” – Nonfics (Substack) Nov 19, 2014 Full Review The Better Angels (2014) 44% C+ EDIT “...it's hard to think of any other strong debut that leaves the personality of its filmmaker obscured as deeply in the shadows as this.” – Film School Rejects Nov 6, 2014 Full Review Death Metal Angola (2012) 93% 4/5 EDIT “...a rich and respectful portrayal of hardcore music as a revitalizing vessel.” – Nonfics (Substack) Nov 6, 2014 Full Review 20,000 Days on Earth (2014) 97% B+ EDIT “'20,000 Days on Earth' is a beautifully shot piece of film poetry that ruminates on the practical implications of the highly unusual way of living that is rock stardom.” – Film School Rejects Sep 17, 2014 Full Review Level Five (1997) 94% 3/5 EDIT “Tension is explored between the medium and the message - namely, how history becomes selectively fashioned for the medium through which it is depicted rather than the other way around.” – Nonfics (Substack) Aug 13, 2014 Full Review Finding Fela (2014) 60% 1/5 EDIT “'Finding Fela' does not appear to be trying very hard to do what its title indicates.” – Nonfics (Substack) Aug 2, 2014 Full Review Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014) 83% C EDIT “An informative yet unfocused study of murder and corruption...'Whitey' never quite coheres or fully expresses what exactly it wants to illuminate about any of these subjects.” – Film School Rejects Jun 27, 2014 Full Review A Summer's Tale (1996) 98% B+ EDIT “It's a complex character study that reveals how little we can know of someone through conversation, as conversation often changes the way we both perceive and portray our sense of who we are.” – Film School Rejects Jun 21, 2014 Full Review Ivory Tower (2014) 84% 3/5 EDIT “'Ivory Tower' lays out quite elegantly the many systemic problems, historical shifts and organizational changes that have contributed to the current crisis in higher education.” – Nonfics (Substack) Jun 12, 2014 Full Review The Robber (2010) 78% B+ EDIT “The strange relationship between compulsive personalities and physical fitness is at the heart of [this] engrossing and complex yet economically straightforward character-driven thriller.” – Film School Rejects Jun 2, 2014 Full Review Queen to Play (2009) 70% B EDIT “'Queen to Play' is a humble achievement.” – Film School Rejects Jun 2, 2014 Full Review Poetry (2010) 100% A EDIT “But what's so surprising about Poetry is Lee's unassuming mastery over the elements therein.” – Film School Rejects Jun 2, 2014 Full Review Cold Weather (2010) 78% A- EDIT “'Cold Weather' is an engaging and inventive act of genre-tweaking with no bells and whistles attached, and it represents a huge leap forward for an increasingly promising filmmaker.” – Film School Rejects Jun 2, 2014 Full Review Every Day (2010) 35% D EDIT “The problem with Every Day is that it doesn't take a third major element into account in the film/audience relationship equation: complete apathy.” – Film School Rejects Jun 2, 2014 Full Review Benazir Bhutto (2010) 83% B EDIT “...the subjects of this documentary are incredibly complex and the film covers them at a hurried pace...” – Film School Rejects Jun 2, 2014 Full Review Tiny Furniture (2010) 79% B EDIT “As Aura is unable to see past the immediate moment, the plot is structured in a way that provides no foreseeable linear direction to an inevitable destination.” – Film School Rejects Jun 2, 2014 Full Review Tabu (2012) 87% A EDIT “'Tabu' is a strange and hypnotizing moving image poem with no comprehensive or unifying point of comparison.” – Film School Rejects Jun 2, 2014 Full Review Hello I Must Be Going (2012) 74% B EDIT “...a sincerely personal take on its subject matter, opting for three-dimensional leads and earned pathos over quirky character traits, cynical humor, or an invasively stylized visual approach.” – Film School Rejects Jun 2, 2014 Full Review Killer Joe (2011) 80% B- EDIT “The tone in Killer Joe feels so expertly and delicately crafted that we only laugh at the film's absurd scenarios if and when the filmmaker permits it so.” – Film School Rejects Jun 2, 2014 Full Review
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