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Storytelling (2002)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:15
Rotten:12
Average Rating:5.8/10
Theatrical Release:Jan 25, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $850,758
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
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Reviews for Storytelling
Top CriticDespite [Solondz's] undeniable talent, however manipulative, his stories are too sour and mean-spirited for my taste.
03/13/02
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03/09/02
Top CriticThat Storytelling has value cannot be denied. Not even Solondz's thirst for controversy, sketchy characters and immature provocations can fully succeed at cheapening it.
02/24/02
Top CriticIn his latest effort, Storytelling, Solondz has finally made a movie that isn't just offensive -- it also happens to be good.
02/15/02
Top CriticSolondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision, but that vision is beginning to feel, if not morally bankrupt, at least terribly monotonous.
02/08/02
Top CriticSometimes seems less like storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to get off his chest.
02/08/02
Top CriticA two-part film by Solondz that confirms his special affinity for subversive but discomfortingly truthful humor.
02/08/02
Top CriticI 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
Top CriticOne of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art, ethics, and the cost of moral compromise.
02/08/02
Top CriticBy 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
Top CriticThe art of Storytelling too often degenerates into a rant, losing its very own hard-bought truth.
02/07/02
Top CriticIt 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
Top CriticThere are unnervingly fine performances from Selma Blair as the aspiring fiction writer and from Mark Webber as Scooby.
02/07/02
Top CriticBrutally funny -- and not a little horrifying.
02/07/02
Top CriticShocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker's bottomless pit of self-absorption.
02/07/02
Top CriticSolondz 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
Top Critic[Solondz is] so interested in challenging us and offending us that he's sacrificing some of the storytelling in each of these films.
02/04/02
Top CriticAn inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength.
02/04/02
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