Bomb The System

That's "bomb" as in cover with graffiti, not blow up: Twenty-three-year-old NYU graduate Adam Bhala Lough's first feature, set in the modern-day world of New York City graffiti artists, has style to burn, even if it's driven by a naive notion of bombing as rebellious, antiestablishment visual poetry. High-school grad Anthony "Blest" Campo (Mark Webber) grew up in the shadow of his older brother, a legendary graffiti tagger named Lazaro (Blake Lethem) who died when Blest was only 7. Now 19, Blest has a room in a downtown loft owned by Hazer (Joey Dedio), an old friend of Lazaro's who made a bundle acting in Spanish-language soap operas and now finds himself adrift. By...