Not nearly dark or clever enough to carry off its tale of a 15-year old's orchestration of revenge. Better to rent 1995's To Die For for sheer ambition and 1999's Jawbreaker for pure delightful spite.
A former editor of millimeter, the magazine about the technology of making movies, I’ve written about movies for the World and Independent Film Page on About.com. the Kansas City Star and local site KCActive. I’m a guest critic on the independent, foreign and documentary review episodes of Steve Kraske's "Up to Date" on KCUR, the Kansas City NPR affiliate and a former member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.
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