Review of Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996) by Jay F — 13 Mar 2008

Literally a perfect movie. Every scene has a purpose. Every piece of dialogue is mind-boggling good. Heather Matarazzo is wonderful as Dawn Wiener. She should have gone places instead of being relegaed to Anne Hathaway's dykey friend in Princess Diaries.

The final scene on the bus is heartbreaking and puts the whole movie in perspective. Todd Solondz would go on to do way more contreversial, out there stuff. This is by far his most approachable material and it's his best.