2010 · thriller · drama · action
Twelve
Directed by Joel Schumacher1h 33m2010
A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.
Our read: Twelve (2010) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · drama · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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How Twelve feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want glossy Upper East Side teen crime spiraling into privileged rot.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if shallow party-drug melodrama and murky plotting will bore you.
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