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Palmer review: Queer-themed drama overcomes a steep hurdle of predictability
Justin Timberlake and Ryder Allen get in sync as a makeshift family in Apple TV+ s graceful Palmer
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Justin Timberlake in Palmer
From the moment a bus with a broken headlight drops ex-convict Eddie Palmer off in his small Louisiana hometown, it’s clear his road to redemption won’t be easy even if he does still look like Justin Timberlake. As the former golden boy title character in director Fisher Stevens’ moving drama
Palmer (★★★☆☆), the pop star appears almost as haggard as that beat-down bus.
Released early, after serving 12 years of a 17-year sentence (so you know he did something
âPalmerâ Review: A Crisis of Masculinity
Justin Timberlake stars as an ex-convict who interrogates his gender biases after he comes to care for a young boy in this prosaic melodrama.
Justin Timberlake and Ryder Allen in “Palmer.”Credit.Apple Original Films
By Natalia Winkelman
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Like a bad egg set to boil, a rugged ex-convict softens and then cracks in the pallid drama âPalmer.â The film, streaming on Apple TV+, opens with its stoic protagonist returning home to rural Louisiana after serving a 12-year prison sentence. Palmer (Justin Timberlake) hits the bar and carouses with buddies, but his townie itinerary changes when he finds himself saddled with caring for Sam (Ryder Allen), the cherubic child of a neglectful neighbor.