| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Despite [Solondz's] undeniable talent, however manipulative, his stories are too sour and mean-spirited for my taste.

| Mar 13, 2002

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 24, 2002

In his latest effort, Storytelling, Solondz has finally made a movie that isn't just offensive -- it also happens to be good.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2002

Provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of Todd Solondz.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 10, 2002

Solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision, but that vision is beginning to feel, if not morally bankrupt, at least terribly monotonous.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 8, 2002

A frustrating experience, made more so by the seemingly self-referential moments in the film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 8, 2002

Sometimes seems less like storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to get off his chest.

| Feb 8, 2002

A two-part film by Solondz that confirms his special affinity for subversive but discomfortingly truthful humor.

Full Review | Feb 8, 2002

I think Solondz, as dispassionately as possible, is offering a pretty shrewd and insightful look at the nature of exploitation and manipulation in society.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 8, 2002

One of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art, ethics, and the cost of moral compromise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 8, 2002

By not averting his eyes, Solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable, the unacceptable, the unmentionable.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 8, 2002

The lower your expectations, the more you'll enjoy it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 7, 2002

The art of Storytelling too often degenerates into a rant, losing its very own hard-bought truth.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2002

It feels like a transitional film for a director with something to get off his chest, and whose best work is hopefully yet to come.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2002

There are unnervingly fine performances from Selma Blair as the aspiring fiction writer and from Mark Webber as Scooby.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2002

Brutally funny -- and not a little horrifying.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2002

Shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker's bottomless pit of self-absorption.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2002

Solondz creates a unique landscape of suburban-bred misery, hypocrisy, and vulnerability, a bleak vista that continually forces viewers to shift sympathies and antipathies.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 7, 2002

[Solondz is] so interested in challenging us and offending us that he's sacrificing some of the storytelling in each of these films.

Full Review | Feb 4, 2002