sentences: "Essayist Steve Almond called "Ferris" "the most sophisticated teen movie [he] had ever seen," adding that while Hughes had made a lot of good movies, "Ferris" was the "one film [he] would consider true art, [the] only one that reaches toward the ecstatic power of teendom [sic] and, at the same time, exposes the true, piercing woe of that age."