This nasty high school satire manages to insult everyone in the entire film, said Carina Chocano in the Los Angeles Times. Except perhaps the brutally clever main character, Kimberly Joyce, who will stop at nothing to forward her ambitions. Evan Rachel Wood plays her almost perfectly as cool, calculating, and without a shred of morality. Kimberly enlists two friends against her hated English teacher to charge him with sexual abuse. True, he does have fantasies of schoolgirls, but he is entirely too ineffectual to act on them. As Kimberly
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