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2001
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Positive Reviews
29
Negative reviews
14
Average Rating
2.9
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3.2
Solondz creates a unique landscape of suburban bred misery, hypocrisy, and vulnerability, a bleak vista that continually forces viewers to shift sympa ..
EW
4.4
She goes looking for trouble, but finds she doesnt like it, and writes a tearful, defiant story about their encounter.
Rogerebert
2.5
Mikey is such a loathsome mini Dubya that its a surprise Solondz doesnt have the child raped.
2.5
Provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of Todd Solondz.
3.1
Solondz is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to make it entertaining.
E Film Critic
3.5
As the professor, Robert Wisdom gives an uncompromising performance.
San Francisco Chronicle
4.0
Storytelling is a witty, dark, and strangely satisfying experiment. Its a little bit sad, a little bit sick, and a whole lot honest.
JoBlo
3.5
Still pretentious and filled with subtext, but entertaining enough at face value to recommend to anyone looking for something different.
JoBlo
2.8
In this case, Solondzs mixture of cynicism and smugness doesnt go deep enough or seem truthful enough to matter much.
One Guys Opinion
2.5
While theres clearly a point to Fiction, Non fiction will leave viewers scratching their heads and wondering what about the story Solondz found compel ..
ReelViews
4.5
The film is all a little Lit Crit 101, but its extremely well played and often very funny.
Tv Guide
3.8
Seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior, as Happiness was... Hence, Storytelling is far more appealing.
Combust Ible Celluloid
1.8
Storytelling is proof that Solondz has wrung his own formula dry.
3.5
And, as Scooby points out, it doesnt matter, as long as the movies a success.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
While the segment contains a plethora of volatile subject matter, the overall story feels far too flat and doesnt involve the viewer as well as it sho ..
Screen It
3.8
Solondz is a courageous social commentator and a canny provocateur at the same time. Hell never get to Hollywood if he stays on this track, but cinema ..
Cs Monitor
4.5
Whether you consider him glib or perverse or really onto something, his m.o. makes for provocative movie storytelling.
Film Journal International ..
1.9
And Solondz, who doesnt usually create the most likable characters, provides an even less interesting lot than usual.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.8
With a confrontational stance, Todd Solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families.
Internet Reviews
3.1
The writing is sharp, but Solondz doesnt have anything new to say about unhappy families.
Internet Reviews
2.5
The film is marked by the same darkly humorous sensibility of rest of Solondzs work, excpet that the novelty is gone and the acerbic vision is now con ..
Emanuellevy
1.5
More than any other filmmaker, Solondz represents the worst trend of American indie filmmaking over the last 10 years: the movie as freak show.
Salon
1.5
However, that doesnt mean home burglaries are a thing of the past.
Observer
3.0
A compelling, if damning and willfully extreme portrait of the mores of 21st century humanity.
Bbc
3.8
Landons unnatural hell, downright unmale sensitivity and keen romantic instincts reach ridiculous heights as the spirits of his beloved falter.
Mr Brown Movies
4.0
A virtuoso work in every aspect in which Solondz shakes a fist at the inescapability of human limitations colliding with the perversity of fate.
Calendar Live
1.5
After Vi doesnt sweat during sex, Marcus accuses her of kindness and pity and rails that shes lost interest now that the kinkiness is gone and he angr ..
Seattle Pi
1.5
Solondz will likely never make a film half as good as American Beauty, but thats beside the point.
Coles Mithey
3.1
Too much of Storytelling moves away from Solondzs social critique, casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteurs ..
Film Freak Central
4.5
Presents a host of interesting characters and intriguing elements to mine.
Boxoffice Magazine
1.5
The talented cast is largely wasted on the strange just to be strange tales.
E Online
3.5
Overall its a film I found caustically funny and richly on target with this in your face attitude of filmmaking.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
3.5
With Storytelling, Solondz has made another deeply personal film while treading familiar misanthropic ground.
Jam! Movies
3.8
I think Solondz, as dispassionately as possible, is offering a pretty shrewd and insightful look at the nature of exploitation and manipulation in soc ..
Denver Post
4.0
Solondzs most impressive skill is in taking situations that would seem almost comedic on the page, and wedging them into sad, brutal alterna scenarios ..
Filmcritic.com
4.5
What shows us and what he is worried about are nonsense issues, problems made of straw, artifices he has created in his own mind.
Vulture
0.5
I thought Marcus would be different after all, hes got cerebral palsy!
Nitrate Online
3.8
The first segments concise, incisive storytelling gives way to a looser, rambling mess that lacks a real dramatic center.
Movie Martyr
3.0
In a scabrous follow up to Happiness, Todd Solondz once again crafts a movie easier to admire than it is to like.
Net Flix
3.8
In his latest effort, Storytelling, Solondz has finally made a movie that isnt just offensive it also happens to be good.
Globe and Mail
2.0
Its never less than interesting, thats for sure, but I didnt like it.
Gost Dog
1.5
This one plays as two separate pieces that may have been better if presented as stand alone films in different formats.
Supercala.com
3.5
Director Todd Solondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies, and about his responsibility to the characters that he crea ..
Deep Focus
1.2
A compendium of Solondzs own worst instincts in under 90 minutes.
3.1
Each story on its own could have been expanded and worked into a compelling single feature, but in its current incarnation, Storytelling never quite g ..
Sacramento Bee
1.5
While Solondz tries and tries hard, Storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket.
Movie Views
0.5
Solondz has finally brought his critics into the frame, if only in an attempt to subject them to the same torture as everyone else.
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