Art School Confidential

Zwigoff and Clowes score big, consistent laughs in Confidential's first hour...

The movie's hero is Jerome (Max Minghella), already an extraordinary draftsman when he enters the school; his drawings glow from the page with conviction and love. I want to be the next Picasso, he claims...

...Art School Confidential is really a tale of demolished idealism appropriate for any creative job market.

This circular reasoning is what the art world is all about. As the movie has it, all roads lead to corruption.

The film freely crosses genres - romance, parody, comedy, mystery - without caring that there are times when the transitions are bumpy and the ingredients begin to curdle.