YMMV / Art School Confidential

• Crosses the Line Twice: The only approval Jerome gets out of his parents is when he lies to them about having a girlfriend. His bratty sister tells him it's because "They were starting to think you were a homo."
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: With the exception of the girl who thanks Jerome for drawing her in the beginning, or his Love Interest Audrey, virtually every character is unpleasant, idiotic, self-serving and rather unlikable. This includes Jerome who, despite being the main character and the only competent artist, sees art as a means to get a girlfriend. His teacher is apathetic and does nothing to show praise to the only student who gives a damn, or to correct the other students, who are all self-righteous and pretentious towards him and think Jerome's a naïve fool for criticizing their work just because it's "not perfect", which includes rather half-assed crayon drawings. One of his roommates is an amateur film student who wants to take advantage of the murders for views, and thinks to add romance just to impress the women, whom he regards as skanks. To top it off, the movie exhausts most of its comedy in the first third, despite being labelled a comedy, making most of the movie just breaking Jerome's spirit while surrounded by unlikable idiots.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Critics felt the murder mystery plot was unnecessary, and that the film should've stuck with its premise about comedy in an art school.
• The Woobie: Jerome, who wants to be a great artist and find love. The school he attends is full of complete assholes, including his roommates that involve someone who wants to advantage of recent killings by a strangler for fame. His class is full of pretentious people who don't follow the curriculum and dismiss his hard work in favor of works of people with clearly less talent and skill than him, such as calling his detailed portrait looking like it was made by a machine while openly praising one's work that looked like a 4-year old's crayon drawing. It takes a toll on his idealism and his patience. He only finds success when he's arrested for a crime he didn't commit.

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