Feels more like an experimental project designed simply to get under viewers' skins than a finished movie.
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02/08/02
Storytelling (2002)
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Reviews Counted:89
Fresh:47
Rotten:42
Average Rating:5.6/10
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Director Todd Solondz (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, HAPPINESS) presents this characteristically bleak and darkly comic drama in two distinct parts. The first story, "Fiction" stars Selma Blair as Vi,... [More]
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Selma Blair, Mark Webber, Leo Fitzpatrick
Director: Todd Solondz
Reviews for Storytelling
Sometimes seems less like storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to get off his chest.
02/08/02
Made me feel uneasy, even queasy, because [Solondz's] cool compassion is on the border of bemused contempt.
02/08/02
It's bile, pure and simple.
02/08/02
The work of someone who has read too much of his own press, and in his rush to make a film to address critics, forgot to come up with a movie worth seeing.
02/08/02
A two-part film by Solondz that confirms his special affinity for subversive but discomfortingly truthful humor.
02/08/02
I think Solondz, as dispassionately as possible, is offering a pretty shrewd and insightful look at the nature of exploitation and manipulation in society.
02/08/02
One of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art, ethics, and the cost of moral compromise.
02/08/02
By not averting his eyes, Solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable, the unacceptable, the unmentionable.
02/08/02
Top CriticThe lower your expectations, the more you'll enjoy it.
02/07/02
The work of a previously promising filmmaker who, having no new ideas, has morphed into a sniggering schoolboy intent upon being mean.
02/07/02
The art of Storytelling too often degenerates into a rant, losing its very own hard-bought truth.
02/07/02
It feels like a transitional film for a director with something to get off his chest, and whose best work is hopefully yet to come.
02/07/02
There are unnervingly fine performances from Selma Blair as the aspiring fiction writer and from Mark Webber as Scooby.
02/07/02
How lame is it that a leading indie like Solondz has resorted to Hollywood send-up?
02/07/02
Brutally funny -- and not a little horrifying.
02/07/02
Fling whatever pejorative you like at Todd Solondz's new film, Storytelling. You probably won't miss your mark.
02/07/02
Shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker's bottomless pit of self-absorption.
02/07/02
Solondz creates a unique landscape of suburban-bred misery, hypocrisy, and vulnerability, a bleak vista that continually forces viewers to shift sympathies and antipathies.
02/07/02
Shrewd but pointless.
02/07/02
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