You wouldn't surf past "Say Anything" to find it, but "Art" is a decent-enough entry in an overcrowded genre.

Though it doesn't fully resonate as a romance, it is effective as a character study.

Even slumped over Camus, Highmore's a charmer -- and he carries the movie well on his slim shoulders.

For all his reliance on teen-movie formula, writer-director Gavin Wiesen is surprisingly adept at depicting messy emotions and capturing the spontaneity of adolescence.

Unlike most recent coming-of-age movies, this one gets by on more than capricious eccentricity and sentimentality. It has something called heart.