College and high school serve as the backdrop for two separate stories about cruelty, deception, storytelling, and other people's suffering that are unrelated and have different actors, titled 'Fiction' and 'Non-Fiction'.
That Storytelling has value cannot be denied. Not even Solondz's thirst for controversy, sketchy characters and immature provocations can fully succeed at cheapening it.
EmanuelLevy.Com
February 10, 2007
The film is marked by the same darkly humorous sensibility of rest of Solondz's work, excpet that the novelty is gone and the acerbic vision is now contained in a fractured text marred by poor storytelling and shifting tone--it's not easy to shock anymore
Solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision, but that vision is beginning to feel, if not morally bankrupt, at least terribly monotonous.
Seattle Times
February 08, 2002
A frustrating experience, made more so by the seemingly self-referential moments in the film.
Goatdog's Movies
October 13, 2002
It's never less than interesting, that's for sure, but I didn't like it.
