To me, this movie is perfection.

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Excellent but underrated film

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Loved the irony of this movie. And the main actor has enough gaucherie to carry the whole thing off. The comedy of the class characters is really funny. Jim Broadbent's character has the cynicism to balance the movie. Perhaps the murder theme and all those involved in it goes overboard but what the heck?! I stayed with it to the end not knowing where it would lead. Unpredictable. Be prepared for surprises in this movie, that's all I can say! And Beethoven's Emperor Concerto is used to perfection.

Dear Terry Zwigoff, Art School Confidential was a hilarious film. I have never been to art school so I don't think I got all the jokes. I also know nothing about paintings or modern art. But this film about shy and self absorbed young artist (Max Minghella) and his life at an art school where he meets many eccentric characters, falls in love and his desperate and felonious attempts to achieve fame are as dark and entertaining as Enid's battle against phony's and dullards in Ghost World. Daniel Clowes really packs it in with the jokes and the social commentary. I cannot think of a single unremarkable scene in the whole film. Every single scene is worth watching over and over again. The supporting cast was astonishingly brilliant. Jim Broadbent deserves special mention. I often rewatch the scenes which he appears in. The part where he calls for a plague to wipe off the human race was very well written and acted. The character who is so disillusioned with the state of the human race that he has to murder people for inspiration was very interesting. Adam Scott as the prickly successful artist had one of the best scenes in the whole film. Jeanette Brox was terrific as the irritable and shabbily dressed Milo. Joel David Moore as the lazy art student was the perfect foil for Max Minghella's's tenacious lead character. There were so many other brilliant bit players in the film. I could recognize most of these actors if they appeared in other films. That is how good they were. Art School Confidential, like Ghost World is one of those films where you feel like the characters are your close friends and you can empathize with their plight in the face of a cruel and indifferent world. Best Regards, Pimpin. (10/10)

Jerome (Max Minghella) is a geeky self-important Art nerd. He's always drawing and always being bullied. His great hope is Strathmore College where he could start a new life. Only Strathmore is a rundown crumbling institution with disinterested teachers. He's enamored with beautiful nude model Audrey (Sophia Myles). Oh and there is a serial killer.I love the skewering of the art world and art education. It has a dark edge. Max Minghella is not the most compelling actor but he masters the feel of a pompous art nerd. John Malkovich is great as a professor. Sophia Myles is beautiful. I could see her as an object of desire. The only problem is that I don't think Jim Broadbent is the right actor for the role. Overall, this is a good black comedy.

A movie that tries too hard to be "dark' and ends up inadvertently just an imitation of dark comedies; littered with clichés, and absent any of the insight or wit that turns a movie dark and comedic. Plus, with a cast as theatrical as john malkovich, angelica huston, jim braodbent and the son of anthony minghella - certainly no strangers to a fine arts degree - this is a movie built from experience. In that respect, easy for zwigoff...but also lazy. He's not taking us underground so much as simply ripping it off! Art school is no doubt a strange bag of idiosyncrasies and distractions, but you'd hope the writing would reflect the sort of grace gained from having come and gone, something more to show than a mere caricature? This movie regurgitates some true-enough details in place of the depth, or the real confidentiality, that likely underlies what is surely outrageous about art school personalities. For zwigoff, these personalities remain a sad hypocritcal joke and the whole of art school remains just a setting, not a subject. The story is trite. The characters are one-dimensional. And the ending is a classic film student blunder... ironically.