If you thought the wayward teenagers in Kids were in need of some adult oversight, Larry Clark’s bruising second feature might make you think again. With James Woods on savage form as the supposed grown-up in the room, this darkly comic heist movie saves its empathy for the aimless bravado of youth.

Peter Sarsgaard often operates according to his own enigmatic frequencies, and here the character actor exactingly fine-tunes his persona as an eccentric intellectual. Playing an audiophile who has a near-mystic obsession with ambient sounds, he exudes weirdness in a magnetic performance.