Score is primarily for the second story, though the first is not without its charm I guess. That is probably not the right word.

Genuinely amazing. Says so much about the creative process while also being incredibly effective as a Solondz dark comedy. The scene where Vi reads out her short story is perhaps one of my favourite ever.

Some scenes were eerily similar to classes I've had. I don't know though, I wasn't gripped by much beyond the first plotline.

More misanthropic fun from Solondz. Less focused and not as hilarious as his other works but I still thought it was great.

Amusing and worth a look if you like Solondz.

Some reviewer or another described this as "a big ol' bucket of misanthropy". Well, that's exactly what I've always liked about Todd Solondz

Enjoyable.

Either you go in for this sort of intellectual junk or you don't. As a story about storytelling, i think it was quite interesting, and not unentertaining as a movie with plots & characters stuff. At least it's not pretentious, which would be an easy trap.

A pathetic attempt of creating a Donnie Darko second version. The sociopathic family is dull, and hypnotizing is just embarrassing. The only thing that does make it worth watching is the meaning of rape.

What I learned from this movie: the subtle differences between fiction and non-fiction, the emptiness of the lives of common Americans...and to never piss off an El Salvadorian housemaid.

Todd Solondz tells gives us two stories about storytelling - one concerns a fictional short story college class, and the other concerns a would-be director working on a documentary about a sullen teenage pothead and his suburban Jewish New Jersey family. Like most of his work, it's scathing and unapologetic about its honesty. This is one of the least polarizing of Solondz' works, and yet it still features some scenes that will make the viewer laugh nervously.

What a deep and profounding trashy crap.

Storytelling is black comedy that wounds, its dark wit permeating a commentary on society repeating the cycle of social and racial (ab)norms that's as emotionally engaged as it is inescapably, morbidly bleak.

Todd Solenz has such a view on things...depressing to the point of darkly amusing. This movie is not his best work but oh lord he pushes the boundaries again esp. the Selma Blair love making scene with the black man and what she starts having to say...and the scene where the woman tells a kid what rape is...this movie is not for everyone