Lacking a steely central performance (a la Reese Witherspoon‘s eerily perky slow burn in “Election”) or a headfirst plunge into kinky camp (as in “Wild Things”: come for the catfight, stay for full ...

There’s a scene in “Pretty Persuasion,” Marcos Siega’s broad swipe at high school, the entertainment industry, racism, dog love, local news, bad parenting and pretty much you name it, in which a ...

Pretty Persuasion belongs to the curious subgenre of comedies about oversexed young people who revel in their own transgressive naughtiness, ratcheting up the sex, nastiness, and emotional brutality ...

HOW does one prepare to play a horrendously cruel, masterfully manipulative teenage girl? Just think back a few years, says Evan Rachel Wood, star of the dark high-school satire “Pretty Persuasion.” ...

There’s a scene in “Pretty Persuasion,” Marcos Siega’s broad swipe at high school, the entertainment industry, racism, dog love, local news, bad parenting and pretty much you name it, in which a ...

“Can you tell us what the fuck that movie was about?” asked a leggy blonde. She was at the afterparty “Can you tell us what the fuck that movie was about?” asked a leggy blonde. She was at the ...

Yet another sociopathic high school vixen wreaks havoc in "Pretty Persuasion," an exercise in bad taste that takes itself just seriously enough to be offensive. Slick veneer and saleable thematic ...

To paraphrase the supreme teen satire Heathers, the filmmakers of Pretty Persuasion must have had a brain tumor for breakfast. Heathers, with its lampooning of the high school social battlefield, ...

The teenage girl has been the object of evil in more than a few films over the years. The harmless but biting Mean Girls gave a biting and clever view into the hell of high school popularity. The ...

“Heathers.” “Election.” Anything by Todd Solondz. Even “Cruel Intentions.” All of these films skewer their intended targets with more precision and depth than the similarly themed but overreaching ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Buried beneath the cute outfits and fast metabolisms of high school girls, lies a daunting, ...