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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttJoel Schumacher's Twelve, the latest expose of self-indulgence among privileged teens, is sleek, giddy fun.
- 45MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeOver-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.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumTwelve 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.
- 40Village VoiceMelissa AndersonVillage VoiceMelissa AndersonThough 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).
- 40Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichFrom 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.
- 30Boxoffice MagazinePam GradyBoxoffice MagazinePam GradyUnlike "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.
- 30Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleConsider Twelve its own memory-retarding narcotic.
- 30The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThis 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.
- 25Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversSorry, no XOXO for this slick, hollow hooey.
- 10VarietyVarietyCan't decide if it's a cautionary tale or a lifestyle catalog.