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Can't decide if it's a cautionary tale or a lifestyle catalog.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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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.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
Joel Schumacher's Twelve, the latest expose of self-indulgence among privileged teens, is sleek, giddy fun.
42
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa 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.
40
Village Voice by Melissa 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).
45
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.
30
Boxoffice Magazine by Pam 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.
25
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Sorry, no XOXO for this slick, hollow hooey.
30
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
Consider Twelve its own memory-retarding narcotic.
30
The New York Times by Stephen 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.