Making fun of art students is like shooting Darwin fish in a barrel.

Curiously, this relentlessly cynical tone turns out sounding refreshingly original compared to the usual pieties in the genre.

This smarty-pants campus yarn is on fire with satire.

The excellent ensemble includes John Malkovich as a self-absorbed teacher, and a scene-stealing turn by Jim Broadbent as the world's most self-hating failed artist.