Helen may not be for everyone, but to at least some of us, she's irresistible.

| Feb 8, 2018

A wonderful, must-own transfer by the Criterion Collection of one of last year's best films.

| Aug 1, 2011

I'd never have predicted something this mediocre.

| Jan 3, 2011

Definitely not a film for everybody, but (Todd) Solondz fans...will find plenty to chew on as he continues his exploration into the wounded lives of three sisters and their fractured families.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2010

The daring director is still a fascinating craftsman, but now we don't feel welcome in his dollhouse.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 27, 2010

For all of Solondz's mischief, we sense he likes his unhelpable characters, and that they maybe like each other. A little bit, anyway.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 27, 2010

An easy film to dislike, a piece of cake to admire and all but impossible to love. But I think that's part of the intent.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 27, 2010

Solondz has dropped off the radar of late, but the good news -- or bad news, if you've never warmed to his chilly touch -- is that this master of the jaundiced worldview is back on top of his game.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2010

It's the kind of movie I don't so much hate as find not worthy of even discussing, Solondz quickly becoming a misery-selling afterthought I no longer want to give the time of day.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 19, 2010

The question is: Who wants to watch these people?

| Aug 13, 2010

Solondz, through the troubled voice of 13-year-old Timmy, does rigorous justice to the difficulties of forgiving and/or forgetting.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 13, 2010

Lachman and Solondz have a gift for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary and that ray of hope amid the hopelessness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2010

[Solondz] seems mired in simply rehearsing his characters' most fatal flaws.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 6, 2010

Todd Solondz keeps attempting the impossible and deserves credit for trying.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2010

For the first time in a long time, I'm not just curious about what this divisive director will do next but excited. It took going back to an old tune for Todd Solondz to find his voice again.

| Aug 6, 2010

At times, it makes you realize Solondz may be the closest heir we'll get to Robert Bresson, the French filmmaker of human despair and mysterious grace.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2010

Here [Solondz has] made a film that is sad without energy, dead without life. As a sequel to Happiness, it regards the same lives, then as tragedy, now as farce.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 5, 2010

[Solondz'] best to date...

| Aug 2, 2010

Derives its blackly comedic bite from being both tragic and immediate.

| Jul 30, 2010

A taut and tantalizing mix of salty bites and lazy blanks...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2010