Welcome to the Dollhouse Reviews
July 18, 2018
...a vision of middle-school awkwardness so cringe-worthy you'll be tempted to look away.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
February 27, 2018
The beauty of Welcome to the Dollhouse is its pokerfaced objectivity, which neither condescends to its pubescent victim nor romantically inflates her plight.
June 29, 2016
Welcome to the Dollhouse marks a substantial (and obvious) improvement over filmmaker Todd Solondz's underwhelming debut, Fear Anxiety and Depression...
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| Original Score: 3/4
September 7, 2011
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| Original Score: A-
January 1, 2011
A dark look at adolescence; not for kids.
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| Original Score: 4/5
April 9, 2008
quirky and great
Original Score: 5/5
July 23, 2007
At its best it's like the funniest yet bleakest comic book Dan Clowes never drew.
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| Original Score: 5/5
December 20, 2006
One of the highlights of the 1995 Toronto Festival, Solondz's second film is a stark, often funny, always poignant comedy about suburban mores, centering on a misfit Jewish girl tormented by her family and classmates.
Original Score: A-
December 12, 2005
Todd Solondz's only good movie.
Original Score: 3/5
September 27, 2005
Original Score: 3/5
June 14, 2005
Original Score: 4/5
April 6, 2005
hilariously provocative and almost too real
Original Score: 4/5
March 14, 2005
Still Solondz's one and only great film!
Original Score: 4/5
February 5, 2005
Original Score: 3/5
August 26, 2004
Original Score: 4/5
August 16, 2004
Original Score: 4/5
July 9, 2004
Original Score: 5/5
May 21, 2004
Original Score: 3/5
December 29, 2003
Blisteringly honest and side-splittingly funny. Solondz's most accomplished film.
Original Score: 4/5
October 11, 2003
A sharp, provocative character study and a damning regional portrait, far superior in both respects to Solondz's Happiness.
Original Score: 4/5