Miklahkov keeps 12 tops spinning at all times in the school gymnasium that serves as their deliberation room, and though the speech/conversion pattern grows a little pat, the movement toward consensus raises the further, richly complicated question of how to decide not only what is right, but what is best.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Mikhalkov has made a new film with its own original characters and stories, and after all, it's not how the film ends, but how it gets there.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Betsy Sharkey
There is an unnerving and hopefully implausible twist at the end, but for the most part, Mikhalkov's 12 is magnetic.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
With its thunderous drama and larger-than-life characters, which lend it a brawling energy, 12 is never dull.Read Full Review »
Has none of the crisp passion or suspense of the 1957 Sidney Lumet version; it's bloated, heavy-handed, and lugubrious.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
The new film's not only almost double the length of the original, it's four times as ambitious - a sprawling, surrealist, ultimately disturbing portrait of a society lurching uncertainly toward democracy. What's really on trial in this movie? Just the Russian soul.Read Full Review »
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