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Storytelling Review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    50

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 40

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    A provocative but eventually dislikable two-part film that dares us to dislike it.

  • 50

    out of 100

    The New York Times Dana Stevens

    The most pleasing paradox in Storytelling -- a determinedly paradoxical and, in spite of much of what I've said here, a genuinely pleasing movie -- is that it sets out to debunk this notion and ends up affirming it.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

    Almost as uncompromising, and sometimes as funny, as "Dollhouse" or "Happiness."

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

    None of this intellectualizing is necessary to the simple enjoyment of Storytelling -- provided the viewer has a taste for the pitch-black humor that emerges when Solondz's camera becomes a veritable blowtorch aimed at humanity's myriad failings.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    I saw it a third time. By then I had moved beyond the immediate shock of the material and was able to focus on what a well-made film it was; how concisely Solondz gets the effects he's after.

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