Here is a short film directed and allegedly written by Shia LaBeouf:

[UPDATE 3:33 PM: Just as I posted this to Slog, the video became password-protected, presumably for reasons which will become evident as you read this post.]

The problem is, the short film seems to be taken almost word for word from a comic strip created by Dan Clowes five years ago. BadAss Digest's Devin Faraci links to a scanned version of the story someone uploaded to Tumblr. There's no credit to Clowes in the film, though a great deal of the movie seems to use the comic as a shooting template, with identical dialogue and visual framing throughout. BuzzFeed's Jordan Zakarin asked Clowes about the film, and here's what he said:

“The first I ever heard of the film was this morning when someone sent me a link. I’ve never spoken to or met Mr. LaBeouf,” Clowes told BuzzFeed. “I’ve never even seen one of his films that I can recall — and I was shocked, to say the least, when I saw that he took the script and even many of the visuals from a very personal story I did 6 or 7 years ago and passed it off as his own work. I actually can’t imagine what was going through his mind.”

LaBeouf has not yet responded to these charges.

UPDATE 3:49 PM: Here's an interview with Shortoftheweek.com in which LaBeouf appears to claim ownership of the script:

Tackling the subject of film criticism is always going to be an interesting choice for someone in LaBeouf’s line of work, eager to discover how the concept originated and why he decided to create a narrative around a film critic, Short of the Week spoke to the director about the inception of Howard Cantour—”I know something about the gulf between critical acclaim and blockbuster business. I have been crushed by critics (especially during my Transformers run), and in trying to come to terms with my feelings about critics, I needed to understand them. As I tried to empathize with the sort of man who might earn a living taking potshots at me and the people I’ve worked with, a small script developed.”