If you hated Larry Clark's first film Kids, then you will hate Bully for those exact same reasons. I happened to like Kids, and I'm happy to see Clark return with his usual button-pushing gimmicks: sweaty sex, naked teenagers, pornographic language, physical brutality, and buckets of drugs. Bully puts violence at the forefront, as it is based on actual recent… read more!

I'm one of a decreasing number of serious fans of Larry Clark's film work. With disturbing, violent, sexually graphic stories about troubled teenagers (Kids, Bully, the still-unseen-in-America Ken Park), Clark endears himself to few people. I'd like to think a part of this is the discomfort that his leering camera brings out in audiences: perhaps there's a sense of, "If… read more!