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93 MINUTES | KENDALL SQUARE

Adam Bhala Lough’s frenetic ode to graffiti and New York City storms along in a primary-colored 2 am haze of spray paint and anti-authority fervor. Set in alleyways, rooftops, overpasses, and empty lots, the film follows rising-star Blest (Mark Webber, convincing in his angst and restlessness) as he and his crew — brothers Justin (Gano Grills) and Kevin (Jade Yorker) — bomb blank walls, tag the city, nick spray cans, and run from the cops. Blest faces dueling pressures from art school on the West Coast and his political-activist girlfriend (Jaclyn DeSantis). And one cop in particular, odious if overdone boozing cokehead Bobby Cox (Al Sapienza), wants to bust them in the act. With a moody synth soundtrack amplifying the fumy, fuming life, Lough captures the compulsion and the ego of these artists, but the longer rants about the art have a scripted, fresh-out-of-film-school quality, particularly since the acts speak for themselves.