Review: Timberlake seeks redemption in formulaic ‘Palmer’
by Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press
Posted Jan 27, 2021 4:21 pm EDT
Last Updated Jan 27, 2021 at 4:28 pm EDT
This image released by Apple shows Ryder Allen, foreground, and Justin Timberlake in a scene from “Palmer.” (Apple via AP)
There’s a kitchen-sink full of Serious Drama Cliches in the new Justin Timberlake film “Palmer,” about a high school football star turned convict who must help the young gender fluid boy with the addict mom next door while also trying to regain his footing in his small Louisiana hometown. It’d be an insult to real Oscar-bait to even call this Oscar-bait. And yet, compelling performances make “Palmer” watchable and fairly affecting despite the fact that we’ve seen this kind of thing so many times before.
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1/29/2021
Justin Timberlake plays an ex-con stuck caring for a kid in Fisher Stevens’ drama.
Just a few months ago, Juno Temple helped give the fledgling Apple TV+ service its first must-see:
Ted Lasso, a practically perfect comedy series that radiated decency and hope in a world that.well,
you were there. She’s very much on the other side of the coin in her reunion with the streaming service, playing a drug-addicted single mom so neglectful that abandoning her kid to the care of a just-released felon is actually a step in the right direction.
That ex-con is the eponymous hero of Fisher Stevens’