Review of Art School Confidential (2006) by Kang R — 02 Mar 2011

Familiar, comfortable territory here, for both the author/artist Daniel Clowes, and director Terry Zwigoff. And, appropriately, for a comic book adaptation, this is a movie of caricatures. It works very well as such (all of the laughs on offer here come, from the overt personality quirks of the art students & faculty) - until the leaden plot, with the 'twist' you can see coming from a mile off, leaves it mired in mere average-dom.

The well placed cameos, from Jim Broadbent & Steve Buscemi, definitely give this something of a lift....but it was a lift that was surely needed.