Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse is one of the genre's most provocative, impactful, and poignant entries.

| Mar 13, 2023

... There are deep and uneasy truths about emergent sexuality and the Darwinian atavism of the playground.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2023

Nobody comes out of this looking pretty, and dignity – a key word in the film – is always far removed from these characters’ Darwinian struggles to survive their day without being rejected, mistreated or much, much worse.

| Mar 4, 2023

Episode 36: Love in the Time of Monsters / Barbarella / Welcome to the Dollhouse / Johnny Guitar

| Original Score: 70/100 | Oct 3, 2021

...a vision of middle-school awkwardness so cringe-worthy you'll be tempted to look away.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 18, 2018

The beauty of Welcome to the Dollhouse is its pokerfaced objectivity, which neither condescends to its pubescent victim nor romantically inflates her plight.

| Feb 27, 2018

Welcome to the Dollhouse marks a substantial (and obvious) improvement over filmmaker Todd Solondz's underwhelming debut, Fear Anxiety and Depression...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2016

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

A dark look at adolescence; not for kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Welcome to the Dollhouse puts an ugly duckling through her paces.

| Sep 1, 2009

At its best it's like the funniest yet bleakest comic book Dan Clowes never drew.

| Original Score: A | Jul 23, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Dec 20, 2006

Todd Solondz's only good movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 12, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2005

hilariously provocative and almost too real

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2005

Still Solondz's one and only great film!

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 14, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 9, 2004