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Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood), the high-school vamp and evil genius in the new satirical comedy "Pretty Persuasion," tells her protegee, Randa (Adi Schnall), an Arab emigree, that she, Kimberly, is glad she is white. Then she wonders what she would choose to be if she had to be something else. For Randa's benefit, she lists the possibilities in her order of preference: first Asian, then African-American (as long as she could have "Caucasian features," like Halle Berry), ending with Arab. Randa listens quietly, wide-eyed. The kids in "Pretty Persuasion" are perhaps the most barbaric group of bad seeds gathered together in recent movies. They turn candor into a form of ...