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By Rob Gonsalves (1,031) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 22 Jul 2007

It's the work of two misanthropes in an even worse mood than usual…

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By Rob Humanick (476) for Projection Booth (270) on 02 Jul 2007

Simultaneously champions creative desire while calling out the artistic realm's share of pretentious blowhards…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for DallasBlack.com (18) on 19 May 2007

An ingenious satire of the pretentious mindset of the elitist art world from the perspective of a rapidly-disillusioned kid who had no idea…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for UGO (350) on 24 Mar 2007

Making fun of art students is like shooting Darwin fish in a barrel…

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By Josh Levin (15) for Slate (2,081) on 04 Feb 2007

Misanthropy can be incredibly entertaining, so long as that hatred draws blood…

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By Peter T. Chattaway (133) for Christianity Today (953) on 31 Aug 2006

The few characters we might have cared for become increasingly shallow, and it all lapses into clichés about the relationship between art…

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By Andrew Sarris (502) for New York Observer (1,400) on 11 Jul 2006

Curiously, this relentlessly cynical tone turns out sounding refreshingly original compared to the usual pieties in the genre…

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By Jean-François Vandeuren (109) for Panorama (165) on 04 Jun 2006

Art School Confidential s'avère une autre belle réussite pour les deux artistes [Zwigoff et Clowes] qui, espérons-le, collaboreront à nouveau…

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By Jean Lowerison (512) for San Diego Metropolitan (486) on 02 Jun 2006

Unfortunately, Clowes' script is lame and littered with stereotypes, and the performances of Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Jim…

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By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 02 Jun 2006

Itâ(TM)s fine that this film feels uncomfortable indulging the shopworn tropes of coming-of-age story or black comedy or romance or mystery…

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By Susan Tavernetti (105) for Palo Alto Weekly (965) on 02 Jun 2006

Director Terry Zwigoff and comic book artist-turned-screenwriter Daniel Clowes follow up their Ghost World success with a less satisfying…

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By David N. Butterworth (570) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 02 Jun 2006

Rather than observing the intimate details that make an Art School project special, the filmmakers opt to focus on Art School partying (i.e.,…

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By Marrit Ingman (203) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 02 Jun 2006

When it's on, it's really, really on. But when it's not, it feels like it's struggling to find its style, just as Jerome is…

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By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Jun 2006

This has the feel of a beginner's film and has some fun moments and a good performance by John Malkovich, but overall does not have enough…

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By Dan Lybarger (786) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 May 2006

Zygoff and Clowes do get the most out of their first-rate cast and prove that hollow laughs are far superior to no laughs at all…

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By Thomas Delapa (487) for Boulder Weekly (487) on 18 May 2006

In almost any medium, Art School Confidential would draw a failing grade…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for Modamag.com (300) on 17 May 2006

It's a sardonic, subversive, heavy-handed black comedy, painting a nasty picture…

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By Jeremy C. Fox (165) for Pajiba (523) on 16 May 2006

The fictional Strathmore Institute is populated by wannabes, poseurs, hangers-on, and has-beens, just like a real art school, but the satirical…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 16 May 2006

Bitter, flawed, a bit sophomoric, but compelling in a way that better balanced cinematic efforts rarely are…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 May 2006

a sort of John Hughes revamp of Fritz Lang's 'Scarlet Street' (another film in which sexual desire leads a struggling painter down a path…

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