Wiener-Dog

A.A. Dowd

Wiener Dogs laughs are typically sour, but the filmmaker hasnt landed this many of them since Storytelling, his last multipart feature.Solondz smartly bookends the project with its best vignettes; excepting, perhaps, an inspired, Western themed intermission sequence that has to be seen to be believed, the first segment is the flat out funniest. ( Read More )

Steve Davis

In the end, trying to compartmentalize this movie in some neat fashion is folly. This is Todd Solondz and, refreshingly enough, you cant teach an old dog new tricks. ( Read More )

Joshua Rothkopf

The final canvas is the pavement itselfyou know its coming, but brace yourself. ( Read More )

Matt Donato

Yes, Solondzs morose, glib sense of humor does present a stranger take on dramatic storytelling, but one question reigns supreme does it work.You can be quirky, ambitious, and off color for days, yet if execution falters, then all your absurdity is for nothing. ( Read More )

For example, he depicts poor Wiener Dogs explosive diarrhea unflinchingly (lesson learned: dont feed your pet a granola bar) and concludes the final story of the quartet with a gratuitously upsetting ending thats bound to enrage sensitive animal lovers. ( ( Read More )