12 O'Clock Boys

Name: 12 O'Clock Boys
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Released: January 31, 2014
Duration: 76 min
Rating: 68

2014

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Oscilloscope Laboratories | Release Date: January 31, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Pug, a young boy growing up on a combative West Baltimore block, finds solace in a group of illegal dirt bike riders known as the 12 O'Clock Boys.

Director: Lotfy Nathan

Genre(s): Biography, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 76 min

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IndieWire Eric Kohn

Jan 26, 2014

Nathan never condescends to Pug or his cohorts, instead smartly allowing their brazen maneuvers to run the show. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Jan 26, 2014

Using Baltimore’s dirt-bike groups as its entry point, the film offers a remarkable grassroots look at how the system is broken at the inner-city level. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Jan 29, 2014

As reticent as Nathan is to cast explicit judgment, the film shows the tragic impasse between a street culture that’s reckless and provocative, and a police force that exacerbates the problem with heavy-handed tactics. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Jan 30, 2014

12 O’Clock Boys packs more life into its 72 minutes than many longer documentaries do. Read full review

Mike Scott

Jan 31, 2014

12 O'Clock Boys is reminiscent of the Ross brothers' far more lyrically shot 2012 film "Tchoupitoulas," which tagged along with three New Orleans boys for a night of exploration and boundary-testing in the French Quarter. The setting is different in Nathan's film, and Nathan doesn't commit as fully as the Rosses did to visual artistry. But there are thematic similarities, to be sure. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Jan 30, 2014

The film, which feels attenuated despite its brief running time, doesn’t dig deep enough to provide more than an impressionistic portrait. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Jan 31, 2014

A thin, problematic and amateurishly-made documentary, 12 O'Clock Boys plays like two films awkwardly grafted together. Read full review

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seventhseal

Sep 29, 2014

I found this utterly pointless. The street riders have no right to use the publc highway yet the police seem to have little ability to stop them. I think the real issue with this filmumentary is questioning the parenting. What chance do these kids have with the likes of Coco at the helm.

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