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Raw loathing. (The Critics Film).(Critical Essay)

American Prospect, The,  February, 2002  by Parker, James

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I SUSPECT FILMMAKER TODD Solondz of being the sort of man who has difficulties with public transport. I imagine him staggering gray-faced off the bus with his sense of self almost erased by the stink and proximity of his fellow man; or hanging grim as a bat in the far corner of a subway car, his mind flickering with antipathy.

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Am I being unfair? Perhaps I am. But so many things in his movies--their generalized disgust, their unpleasant clarity of tone, and (most of all) their looming, one-dimensional people--remind me of a low-level panic attack. In his latest, Storytelling, we ...

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