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Storytelling (2001) Rank 2 Reviews
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Empire Magazine (--)
Netflix (James Rocchi)
In a scabrous follow-up to Happiness, Todd Solondz once again crafts a movie easier to admire than it is to like. ...read the complete Storytelling movie review at Netflix (James Rocchi)
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DVD Times Review (Raphael Pour-Hashemi)
Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
The lower your expectations, the more you'll enjoy it. ...read the complete Storytelling movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
The work of someone who has read too much of his own press, and in his rush to make a film to address critics, forgot to come up with a movie worth seeing. ...read the complete Storytelling movie review at Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
Kvikmyndir.com (Guojon Helgason)
Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)
A frustrating experience, made more so by the seemingly self-referential moments in the film. ...read the complete Storytelling movie review at Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)
Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision, but that vision is beginning to feel, if not morally bankrupt, at least terribly monotonous. ...read the complete Storytelling movie review at Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
San Diego Union-Tribune (David Elliott)
Made me feel uneasy, even queasy, because [Solondz's] cool compassion is on the border of bemused contempt. ...read the complete Storytelling movie review at San Diego Union-Tribune (David Elliott)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
An inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength. ...read the complete Storytelling movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
DVD Talk (Aaron Beierle)
While I didn't hate "Storytelling", I didn't find much compelling about it, either. The film's most serious flaw is its short running time, which Solondz doesn't seem to care about - rather than focusing on making his points and developing characters, ...read the complete Storytelling movie review at DVD Talk (Aaron Beierle)
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
So I don't know how to take this movie. It is full of hateful people, as with his other films, and it left a similar bad taste in my mouth. There is only one remotely sympathetic character, and he ends up on life support. I thought that Consuela, ...read the complete Storytelling movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
The Movie Chicks
'Storytelling' is really two separate movies with the common bond of angst surrounding high school and college. The first part, 'Fiction' is about three college students and their creative writing professor, Mr. Scott (Robert Wisdom) - an angry ...read the complete Storytelling movie review at The Movie Chicks
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
While the worldview espoused by Storytelling may mirror that of Happiness, it's one of the few areas of synergy. Happiness works not just because it is provocative, but because it features interesting people functioning in a ...read the complete Storytelling movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Screen It! (Jim Judy)
Feels more like an experimental project designed simply to get under viewers' skins than a finished movie. ...read the complete Storytelling movie review at Screen It! (Jim Judy)
Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)
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. ...read the complete Storytelling movie review at Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)
User Reviews
by Bruno on August 30, 2007
Storytelling is another highly enjoyable, if typically disturbing work from the New York director Todd Solondz. His films, from his first breakthrough `Welcome to the Dollhouse' to the recent `Palindromes', have all been thoughtful and controversial ...
by Joshua Miller "Jo... on February 17, 2007
Todd Solondz is a talented filmmaker and I can say that after seeing only one of his films. I ...
by V "here" on December 31, 2005
This is the first film I've seen that for me personally really captures the spirit of suburbia. This is my own experience yes, however, this film doesn't waste any time glorifying or lashing out, it's evenly paced and pointedly wise. The driving force ...
by skiggety on October 07, 2005
This is probably my favorite example of dark comedy to date--but it's very all-or-nothing. There are only 2 funny parts, each one taking up half the movie. Most of the movie is stupid, offensive, dark...just all around disturbing. If you stay curious ...
by Modern Art Snob on May 04, 2005
Is this film supposed to be realistic? No, because reality would be far too drawn out and boring for any film maker to successfully render. Instead, Solondz finds nuances and exploits them to their fullest, and the result is astounding. ...
by Eduardo Nietzsche on January 08, 2005
...is what Solondz seems to excel in capturing in his movies, and if you have the stomach to sit through it, it's hard not to admire the man's sheer artistic ballsiness as well as his virtuosity. ...
by Kim Anehall "www.... on July 15, 2004
The mode of portraying a tale is in focus in Storytelling through two different stories that are disconnected, yet associated to one another, as one deals with the fictional and the other the non-fictional. In the first part, Fiction, ...
by Xavier I. Ucar Co... on December 28, 2003
I won't review it or give it away...I hate to do that. But you should really be prepared for some weird and shocking stuff to the max...specially the first 30 minutes of the film!!! those 30 minutes are a masterpiece...the rest of the film is not as good ...
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