The story is so loosely developed and devoid of suspense, it barely seems to exist.

| Mar 1, 2007

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 27, 2005

I came out of this wishing the paint can crowd would settle for tattoos.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2005

Visually dazzling and dramatically trite -- it's virtuoso piffle.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 26, 2005

Thoroughly fails to convince that its handful of New York characters known as 'bombers,' graffiti mongers futilely yearning for immortality via nightly despoiling of public and private property, is of any tragic interest.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 24, 2005

The film half-heartedly paints their actions as rebel-chic heroism even when it has all the integrity of tomcats spraying outside their yards...

| Original Score: C- | Jun 23, 2005

Notable mainly for its hallucinatory, tripped visuals, which go a long way toward compensating for a less-than-riveting narrative.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2005

A richly textured drama with an angry poetic edge that gets inside the obsessive subculture of New York graffiti artists.

| Jun 2, 2005

A didactic ode to a lifestyle that makes little sense, no matter the darkly romantic rebel-with-a-cause ideas associated with what is essentially an act of vandalism.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 2, 2005

In the end it's all seductive surface and no substance, but Lough has a bold eye and a vivid sense of uniquely urban beauty.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2005

Preachy and single-minded, populated by a world of sympathetic heroes and hissable villains.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 27, 2005

A flashy but numbingly hollow compendium of Trainspotting-inspired visual gimmicks, Lough's tale of New York City 'bombers' is formulaic in the extreme.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 27, 2005

A mild, slow-moving drama that belatedly tries to argue that graffiti writers are political artists, not an urban blight.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 27, 2005

This fictional take on the subject mostly avoids bombing in the bad-movie sense, but could stand to calm down a little.

| Original Score: B- | May 27, 2005

Lough's impressive, if uneven, debut feature captures the adrenaline rush and contradictory nature of the simultaneously creative and criminal activity but stumbles in its attempt to justify it as an art form.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2005

Adam Bhala Lough's hot little melodrama rhapsodizes the lives of contemporary graffiti artists.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2005

Lough references Basquiat, without naming him, but in the end can't quite hijack the late artist's cred for his own hit-and-run movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 26, 2005

Well acted and ably directed, if not very probing about its subject of underclass youth.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 26, 2005

Lough doesn't bomb the system; he sucks it off.

Full Review | May 26, 2005

A needlessly circuitous plot twist leaves a bitter taste, but not before the film's scruffy charm does its work.

Full Review | May 24, 2005