Against the Wall

Although the filmmakers have succeeded in portraying a raw slice of street culture, they have also made something that seems unnecessarily stiff, foisting a structural conceit onto something that by its very nature is free-form and uncontainable.

Pic's cliched underlying story of restless youth plays as too naive for an older audience and too provocative for teens.

A minor, modest indie about two young graffiti artists forced to choose between creative marginalization and the seductions of the marketplace.

It's up to the consistently fluid ensemble acting and colloquially sound dialogue to keep things on track, which they do admirably.