A powerful and beautiful film that matters.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

You feel the performances. You feel the emotional power. You feel.

| Nov 9, 2019

Mighty performances keep the film engrossing even as the movie's runtime crosses the 2 1/2-hour mark.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2018

Old soul Nikita Mikhalkov's appropriation of the 12 Angry Men template is a bloated series of harangues that feels too long even before its full 154 minutes have shuffled by.

| Oct 20, 2014

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

12 is a mildly interesting exercise in cultural translation, but it's difficult to understand why the film was made.

| Jul 6, 2010

I've sampled this core material twice now, and even left to my own devices, I'm still a hung jury.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 3, 2010

2 1/2 hours of Russian men, middle-aged and up, stuck in one room, pontificating and pleading and challenging. Yes, that means subtitles, lots of them. Still with me? Congratulations.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2009

Though long-winded and repetitive, there's much to like in Nikita Mikhalkov's movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2009

A surprisingly energetic, kinetic and gripping film, filled with an enviable selection of great character actors.

| Jul 24, 2009

Unlike Lumet, Mikhalkov doesn't seem to trust 12 angry (or disturbed) men in a room to pull this off.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 21, 2009

The performances, as I say, are wonderful.

| Original Score: B- | May 22, 2009

Slavic gloom and Russian dukh - a word that can be loosely translated as "cunning spirit" - permeate ...

| Original Score: 89/100 | May 15, 2009

There is a lot of material to absorb in one sitting with no breathing room as you must rapidly read the subtitles to keep up with the story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 1, 2009

Shot in sequence and featuring many long takes, it retains some of the feel of the television original despite the broadening of context ...

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 1, 2009

The film transforms Rose's play into a ballet of sorts. The story is as much about movement as it is about words.

| May 1, 2009

Much of it is done so clumsily that the characters verge on becoming caricatures.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 30, 2009

Those who seek a drama as provocative as it is captivating will find much to enjoy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 30, 2009

Never known for his restraint, Mikhalkov takes kitschy liberties with the stark drama about a jury deliberating the fate of a minority youth.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 23, 2009