Dark Horse (2012)

Todd Solondz creates an intimate dark comedy about a manchild whose desire for a romantic relationship runs smack into reality. -- (C) TIFF

Critic Reviews

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Solondz's most waywardly endearing film, his gentlest triumph.
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter
Never less than watchable and loaded with trademark negativity so extreme it's sometimes funny, the new film is nonetheless saddled with a protagonist so narrowly and unlikably presented that, in the end, he doesn't seem worth the time devoted to him.
Ed Whitfield, The Ooh Tray
Hollywood's reluctance to ridicule this cohort may stem from its near total reliance on them to fund its business model since the mid-70s...Solondz, who makes movies for an adult audience, has no such qualms
Edward Douglas, ComingSoon.net
Solondz's most upbeat film since Welcome to the Dollhouse that doesn't make you feel like you need to take a long shower to clean off how ugly it makes you feel afterwards.
Bill Chambers, Film Freak Central
Solondz has viewers so conditioned to his cruel ironies by now that most of this picture's [are] met by howls of approval.
Xan Brooks, Guardian [UK]
There is little in the film's pitch-black interior that wasn't tackled better - with more bite, wit and abandon - in Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse, or Storytelling.