12 Hour Shift
Magnet Releasing | Release Date: October 2, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
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Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
CineVueMartyn ConterioSep 29, 2020
Entertaining from start to finish and wonderfully played by a largely female cast, David Arquette has a small role as an escaped convict, Grant’s film beautifully upends the sexist notion that women are naturally inclined to nurture. It surprises, too, as a tribute to the fortitude of working-class women. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeSep 29, 2020
The material is edgy and at times outrageously gory and chaotic, but Bettis gives Mandy an exhausted, fed-up quality that keeps the movie on track, even (or maybe especially) when she’s pissed off about having to do everything herself. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 29, 2020
12 Hour Shift doesn’t allow for quite the same kind of bravura showcase that Bettis gave us in “May” — Grant’s film, while plenty deranged in its own right, is nevertheless grounded in reality — but it still depends on the actor’s genius for being loathsome and lovable at the same time. Read full review
75
ConsequenceScout TafoyaSep 8, 2020
This strange and anxious mixture of the Working Women comedies of yesteryear (think: 9 to 5, Baby Boom, and Working Girl) with the cramped hospital horror shows of our Saturday night sleepovers (recall: Visiting Hours, Halloween II, and Dream Warriors) is always compelling, always nerve-wracking, mostly funny, and agreeably gross. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis HarveySep 8, 2020
Grant’s screenplay builds a Rube Goldbergian narrative of escalating, piled-up crises, from which she also engineers a just-credible-enough exit strategy. Read full review
70
SlashfilmMatt DonatoSep 8, 2020
12 Hour Shift never takes itself seriously enough to make the calamity that ensues anything more than “dumb fun,” and I mean that positively. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiOct 1, 2020
Bettis is perfectly cast as Mandy, her hazy disaffection to the increasingly bloody mayhem she has to deal with is best described as nonplussed irritation. Other performances are hit and miss. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSep 28, 2020
The plot, geared as much for comedy as horror, is wound with efficient build-up, and its revolving-door atmosphere is consistent enough to paper over some iffy acting, baggy dialogue, and more than a few minutes of wasted real estate. Read full review
60
The GuardianCath ClarkeJan 19, 2021
It’s a throwaway film that perhaps I shouldn’t have enjoyed as much as I did, but Mandy is such a deliciously sour character. Read full review
60
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergOct 1, 2020
It’s hard to argue with Bettis’s frazzled underplaying or Farnworth’s stellar airhead routine, an impressively sustained study in quick-witted dimwittedness. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 29, 2020
Actress turned director Brea Grant (TV’s “Eastsiders”) serves up a pungent, gory goof of a nurses-gone-bad comedy, dark as dirt and corrosive as Clorox. Read full review
40
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaSep 8, 2020
The stage is set for all sorts of misadventures, and sure enough, Grant’s film leans into them, heavily, resulting in a film populated by repulsively stupid characters who keep making dumb decisions. The film’s premise has tons of potential, but you won’t find any of that here. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsOct 2, 2020
In this context, Farnworth’s appropriately broad performance is exceptional. She doesn’t have much dialogue that’s worthy of her playful, all-in line readings, but Farnworth deserves all due praise. Read full review
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