Twelve
Hannover House | Release Date: August 6, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
22
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
8
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70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Joel Schumacher's Twelve, the latest expose of self-indulgence among privileged teens, is sleek, giddy fun. Read full review
45
MovielineMichelle Orange
Over-narrated by Kiefer Sutherland in full "this is extremely important and also very, very cool" mode, from its first self-important minutes Twelve seems as if it can't possibly be serious. Would that it were not. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Twelve ogles the lost boys and girls as they make their mistakes. But unlike the novel, the movie never really gets inside these kids, who aren't in the least all right. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith Uhlich
From the moment Joel Schumacher's dour teens-in-crisis melodrama establishes its group of spoiled (and so, so unloved) Manhattan silver-spooners, you long for anything to leaven the tsk-tsk prurience. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
Though Crawford's bangs and facial hair are the most art-directed aspect of the movie, he's costumed to look like a member of the Trenchcoat Mafia (Madison Avenue branch). Read full review
38
New York PostKyle Smith
It feels as shopworn as a dusty VHS tape of "Less Than Zero." Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert Abele
Consider Twelve its own memory-retarding narcotic. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen Holden
This 95-minute movie is so overstuffed with characters, it would take a whole television season to sort them out and give them any depth. And even then, these people have so little on their minds that 13 hours might not do the trick. Read full review
30
Boxoffice MagazinePam Grady
Unlike "The Lost Boys," there are no bloodsuckers in Twelve. Instead, it just sucks time: 98 minutes to be exact that you can never get back. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Sorry, no XOXO for this slick, hollow hooey. Read full review
10
VarietyPeter Debruge
Can't decide if it's a cautionary tale or a lifestyle catalog. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
There's no getting around how dreadful Twelve is – how tone deaf it is to its young protagonists and how vapid its ersatz production design seems. Read full review
0
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
"If you don't want something," Twelve informs us, "you've got nothing." Well, I wanted to watch a good movie. But Joel Schumacher's shallow teen drama gave me nothing, instead. Read full review
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