- Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
- Release Date: Mar 22, 1996
- Starring: Christina Brucato, Heather Matarazzo
- Summary: Welcome to the Dollhouse is a stark suburban comedy about 11-year-old Dawn Wiener (Matarazzo), a middle child in middle school in the middle of New Jersey. (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Director: Todd Solondz
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 19
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Mixed: 1 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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100But I'm making Welcome to the Dollhouse sound like some sort of grim sociological study, and in fact it's a funny, intensely entertaining film.
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Todd Solondz's grand prize winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival lapses into satire, but its parodistic slant only exaggerates what is truthful, making the unpleasantness of that awkward age all the more disturbing and hilarious. It's a horror film starring reality in the monster role.
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80It may not be to everybody's taste, but this is a daring antidote to its more saccharine cousins.
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60This obsessive movie, awarded the grand jury prize at the Sundance festival, may not quite live up to its advance billing; the subject is powerful, but the filmmaking often seems slapdash, and the final half hour dithers.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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