irritating

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2014

Overburdened with too many characters and a manufactured conclusion, "Twelve" wastes a solid performance by Chace Crawford.

| Original Score: 1.0/5 | Jan 5, 2013

There are absolutely no surprises in "Twelve." None. And the characters are as familiar as the story--a stock collection of "prep school" males and females that look as if they've never sat through a class in their lives.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 8, 2011

Give Schumacher credit for making a movie that is, at the very least, unique in its failure.

| Original Score: C | Dec 21, 2010

The film version of Twelve is quite the opposite of the book, a dull and thoughtless ride with a sad excuse for a climax.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 13, 2010

Joel Schumacher's talent exceeds his ambition in Twelve.

| Aug 11, 2010

An unsavory piece of dreary, mindless ick from a director who can't seem to get his act together these days. That is, if he ever had an act to begin with.

| Original Score: F | Aug 7, 2010

One of the characters...astutely describes herself as 'shallow and narcissistic.' So's the movie.

| Original Score: D | Aug 6, 2010

Sinks under the weight of its own pretensions.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 6, 2010

Want to punch the narrator in the face? Good, we're on the same page.

| Aug 6, 2010

Like most of its characters, Twelve is too cool for school.

| Aug 6, 2010

Another disappointing portrait of rich spoiled kids based on an estimable novel, though you can't blame the actors for the shallow, glitzy tale, directed by Joel Schumacher.

| Original Score: C | Aug 6, 2010

Bleak, intense look at the high life of NYC's young elites.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 6, 2010

The result isn't awful, but it is awfully familiar. When will someone make a film about being old, poor and ugly in Omaha?

| Original Score: C | Aug 6, 2010

Twelve is so much less than zero.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 6, 2010

It feels as shopworn as a dusty VHS tape of Less Than Zero.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 6, 2010

Schumacher can't keep himself from the kind of vibey camera and editing flourishes that facilitate only viewer numbness...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 6, 2010

Plays like a melodramatic rip-off of Bret Easton Ellis books about insufferable kids obsessed with money, drugs and themselves.

| Aug 6, 2010

This movie's like an audiobook, accompanied by visuals from a 7-year-old copy of Vogue.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2010

It's been about 15 years since we had a really major and unpleasant Teen Nihilism movie to feel good about...so teen audiences should soak this one right up.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 5, 2010