It's a throwaway film that perhaps I shouldn't have enjoyed as much as I did, but Mandy is such a deliciously sour character.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 19, 2021

Awash in bloody organs and scheming characters, writer-director Brea Grant's grisly dark comedy 12 Hour Shift ends up being more frenetic than inspired.

| Oct 21, 2020

It's a spiritedly entertaining bit of unrelenting nastiness, all of it centered on a strong performance from the versatile Bettis that's outstanding.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 16, 2020

Grant's script only hints at a sordid past that's never as fleshed out as it needed to be for "12 Hour Shift" to earn the emotional undertow of its ending, but Bettis' clenched face helps fill in the rest.

| Original Score: B | Oct 13, 2020

Grant puts us in the shoes of her harried heroine, while delivering a midnight movie that pulls no punches.

| Oct 3, 2020

If you don't like the premise of 12 Hour Shift, you're not left with much to hold onto.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 2, 2020

Bettis is perfectly cast as Mandy, her hazy disaffection to the increasingly bloody mayhem she has to deal with is best described as nonplussed irritation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 2, 2020

It's hard to argue with Bettis's frazzled underplaying or Farnworth's stellar airhead routine, an impressively sustained study in quick-witted dimwittedness.

| Oct 1, 2020

The plot, geared as much for comedy as horror, is wound with efficient build-up, and its revolving-door atmosphere is consistent enough to paper over some iffy acting, baggy dialogue, and more than a few minutes of wasted real estate.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2020

The material is edgy and at times outrageously gory and chaotic, but Bettis gives Mandy an exhausted, fed-up quality that keeps the movie on track, even (or maybe especially) when she's pissed off about having to do everything herself.

| Original Score: B | Sep 10, 2020

Grant's screenplay builds a Rube Goldbergian narrative of escalating, piled-up crises, from which she also engineers a just-credible-enough exit strategy.

| Sep 3, 2020