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Todd Solondz

American filmmaker (born 1959)

2.72body-of-work score · ranked #400 of 2631 directors · 5 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
October 15, 1959 · Newark
Nationality
United States
Work
actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Todd Solondz
Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara · CC BY 2.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Welcome to the Dollhouse

    1995 · United States · drama

    Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner 1996 · Ebert's annual top 10 1996 #5 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    1.415 citations
  2. 2
    Happiness

    1998 · United States · comedy, drama

    Ebert's annual top 10 1998 #5 · Kehr's annual top 10 1998 #6 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.815 citations
  3. 3
    Storytelling

    2001 · United States · comedy, drama

    NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.171 citation
  4. 4
    Palindromes

    2004 · United States · comedy, drama

    Kehr's annual top 10 2005 #7

    0.171 citation
  5. 5
    Life During Wartime

    2009 · United States · comedy, drama

    Criterion Collection spine #574

    0.161 citation

Complete filmography

All 8 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.