Treating the subject with the gravity that it deserves, it is an unsparing yet un-exploitative look at the rotten fabric of our society.

| Jan 8, 2024

Dominik Moll’s compelling procedural is closer in tone to the Hughes brothers’ From Hell or David Fincher’s Zodiac, albeit without the celebrity of those cases.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2023

[The Night of the 12th] is a procedural that stays true to the original events by upturning the conventions of the genre. And the result is a gnarly, gloomy drama which exerts a tight grip from start to finish.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2023

[Night] assumes the perspective of the police without exempting them from its damning canvas; their cool investigative professionalism (and, in a sense, the film’s) registers as its own kind of complicity in a wretched, man’s-world status quo.

| Dec 8, 2023

Not stylish, flattering, nor particularly visually engaging, but what it has in its favour is veracity; something that is lacking from so many police procedurals that indulge in the fantasy that crime is always solved, and bad people suffer consequences.

| Original Score: 15/20 | Dec 8, 2023

Somewhere beneath its enthralling depiction of obsessive police work is a cry from the heart against a broken system.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2023

The Night of the 12th centers the case, but it's mostly about the consequences of unchecked misogyny. It's also about the life of a detective, in which romance and optimism don't stand much of a chance...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 23, 2023

An accomplished procedural that also looks at gender dynamics that intrude in such matters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 24, 2023

What begins as a standard, fact-based drama morphs into a provocative look into how preconceived notions about gender roles can trip up an investigation, particularly when it’s just a pack of men on the case.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 17, 2023

The filmmakers steal every last boom of their own thunder in fewer than two steps out of the starting gate. Had these sentences appeared at the end of the live-action and before the closing credits, they would have had a monumentally throttling effect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2023

The film deals with the traumatic effects of crime from a social, psychological, and gender perspective making it universal. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 10, 2023

The film’s treatment of the victim herself — incurious and downright gratuitous in the depiction of her murder — cements it as a shallow, un-self-aware, and failed attempt to reckon with a subject that deserved its full focus.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 4, 2023

A tense, engaging crime procedural that is stylistically more American than French.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2023

Moll investigates the emotional states of the cops as doggedly as those cops investigate Clara’s death. His investigation is more fruitful, as the movie maps out the frustrations, the burnout and the stresses these police detectives endure.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 10, 2023

The Night of the Twelfth will give viewers reason to reflect on the inhumanity of innocence and the fragility of life. It’s an astounding film and one that is well worth watching.

| Jun 29, 2023

an unconventional police procedural, one in which an unsolved crime haunts its investigators… emotional callousness begins an array of the violent tendencies of too many men toward women which will weigh upon Yohan.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 27, 2023

The French "Memories of Murder."

| Original Score: A- | Jun 27, 2023

What emerges from this particular case is an expansive study in collective misogyny.

| Jun 9, 2023

A compelling procedural drama that examines the fragility and bias of the systems and institutions in charge of providing justice. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 9, 2023

Stunning and methodical, “The Night of the 12th” remains both pragmatic and heart wrenching...

| Jun 3, 2023