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Despite [Solondz's] undeniable talent, however manipulative, his stories are too sour and mean-spirited for my taste.
Each story on its own could have been expanded and worked into a compelling single feature, but in its current incarnation, Storytelling never quite gets over its rather lopsided conception.
That Storytelling has value cannot be denied. Not even Solondz's thirst for controversy, sketchy characters and immature provocations can fully succeed at cheapening it.
In his latest effort, Storytelling, Solondz has finally made a movie that isn't just offensive -- it also happens to be good.
Solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision, but that vision is beginning to feel, if not morally bankrupt, at least terribly monotonous.
Sometimes seems less like storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to get off his chest.
While Solondz tries and tries hard, Storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket.
Todd Solondz is a white Spike Lee.
Solondz has finally brought his critics into the frame, if only in an attempt to subject them to the same torture as everyone else.
The film is marked by the same darkly humorous sensibility of rest of Solondz's work, excpet that the novelty is gone and the acerbic vision is now contained in a fractured text marred by poor storytelling and shifting tone--it's not easy to shock anymore
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The first tale of woe makes a sharp short film by itself, but the second is a stretch.
In a scabrous follow-up to Happiness, Todd Solondz once again crafts a movie easier to admire than it is to like.
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