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Storytelling (2002)
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Reviews Counted:89
Fresh:47
Rotten:42
Average Rating:5.6/10
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
While Solondz tries and tries hard, Storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket.
09/08/02
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08/17/02
...a sensational self-expose, in which the director presents us with any number of characters that ... reflect and represent various aspects of Todd Solondz
08/06/02
Storytelling is a witty, dark, and strangely satisfying experiment. It’s a little bit sad, a little bit sick, and a whole lot honest.
07/31/02
challenging and uncompromised, and Solondz makes his point and punches it home
07/16/02
This one plays as two separate pieces that may have been better if presented as stand-alone films in different formats.
06/28/02
The movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating.
06/04/02
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05/31/02
Solondz is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to make it entertaining.
05/15/02
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04/12/02
Whether you consider him glib or perverse or really onto something, his m.o. makes for provocative movie storytelling.
04/12/02
It's meant to be bold and shocking...
04/04/02
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03/22/02
This painfully arch and incredibly self-absorbed film -- which might best be described as a dark comedy -- displays nearly all of Solondz's worst and laziest filmmaking tendencies in one compact package.
03/15/02
Still pretentious and filled with subtext, but entertaining enough at 'face value' to recommend to anyone looking for something different.
03/14/02
Despite [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
Solondz is a courageous social commentator and a canny provocateur at the same time. He'll never get to Hollywood if he stays on this track, but cinema will be a lot duller if he ever mends his incendiary ways.
03/09/02
I am more offended by his lack of faith in his audience than by anything on display here.
03/05/02
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