Art School Confidential

Name: Art School Confidential
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: May 5, 2006
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 54
Cast: John Malkovich, Max Minghella, Sophia Myles

2006

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: May 5, 2006 | R

Starring: John Malkovich, Max Minghella, Sophia Myles

Summary: Art School Confidential follows talented young artist Jerome Platz (Minghella) as he escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art school. Here the boyish freshman's ambition is to become the world's greatest artist. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Director: Terry Zwigoff

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 102 min

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James Berardinelli

This is as dark as Zwigoff has gotten - arguably even darker than "Bad Santa." And, while it's legitimate to label Art School Confidential as a "comedy," the movie is more clever than it is funny. Read full review

Michael Sragow

Intelligent and robust contempt has become so rare in movies that the first half of Art School Confidential is intermittently exhilarating. Read full review

Carina Chocano

If a more elegant and succinct explanation of what compels some people to go to art school has ever been filmed, I haven't seen it. Read full review

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

It works for a good while--probably half of the movie. Read full review

Duane Byrge

With an "Animal House"-ish deportment, Art School likely will entertain a sophomoric audience and etch some winning college-kid figures, but art house audiences will be disappointed by its paint-by-numbers storytelling. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

It doesn't help that the central character, Jerome - earnestly played by Max Minghella of "Bee Season" - is essentially a passive observer. Read full review

David Edelstein

Zwigoff doesn't get the tone right, and the picture goes from reasonably amusing (if crude) to puzzling to boring to (when a campus strangler enters the picture) hateful. Read full review

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SamB.

Jul 25, 2006

This is a nasty little gem that skewers the grad/art school pretensions that a lot of knucklehead sycophants wrap their heads around, the only reason why it's getting such low scores is because it calls a lot of so called experts on their credentials and they're severly butt-hurt over it.